On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 18:54 +0100, José Carlos Cruz Costa wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> If it's commercial, the company in question should (and must) allow an
> ebuild for is product, like what happens with rpms and other packages.
> Adding commercial ebuilds to portage is like tainting the kernel with
> binary drivers. 
> 

More to the point...most of the ebuilds in question are just wrappers
for the install process...it still requires the original media (be that
physical or digital) or a key to install trust me when I say that we
aren't distributing binaries unless we have the right to do so.

-- 
Daniel Ostrow
Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees
Gentoo/{PPC,PPC64,DevRel}
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