On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 16:30:03 -0700 Peter Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Maybe it's just me, but I think that having such a core component of | the distribution be proprietary is in complete violation of Gentoo's | Social Contract[1] (if not the letter of it, then its spirit of | openness). It states: | | "Gentoo will never never depend upon a piece of software or | metadata unless it conforms to the GNU General Public License, | the GNU Lesser General Public License, the Creative Commons - | Attribution/Share Alike or some other license approved by the | Open Source Initiative (OSI)." | | Isn't this one of the driving reasons why our forums run phpBB instead | of something like vBulletin, for example? :)
In the past, it's been more or less agreed that it's not depending upon it if it uses an open data format... There was talk of moving the forums to proprietary software at one point, for example. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
