Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fwd: Heads up for Qt5

2012-07-28 Thread Davide Pesavento
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 28/07/12 09:46, Davide Pesavento wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:27 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: >>> >>> On 28 July 2012 13:59, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] So what would be the methodology of making sure a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fwd: Heads up for Qt5

2012-07-28 Thread Ralph Sennhauser
On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 14:27:49 +0800 Ben de Groot wrote: > On 28 July 2012 13:59, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 28/07/12 08:22, Ben de Groot wrote: > >> > >> In preparation for that, we want to ask maintainers of all ebuilds > >> in the tree with dependencies on Qt4, to make sure that they have

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fwd: Heads up for Qt5

2012-07-28 Thread Ben de Groot
On 28 July 2012 15:43, Ralph Sennhauser wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 14:27:49 +0800 > Ben de Groot wrote: > >> On 28 July 2012 13:59, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> > On 28/07/12 08:22, Ben de Groot wrote: >> >> >> >> In preparation for that, we want to ask maintainers of all ebuilds >> >> in the t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fwd: Heads up for Qt5

2012-07-28 Thread Ralph Sennhauser
On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 15:54:07 +0800 Ben de Groot wrote: > We do not have (nor want to support) a qt useflag. We have opted > for "qt4" and "qt5" useflags as the most straightforward and least > confusing. Indeed, the flag qt has almost disappeared from the tree. Good to know.

[gentoo-dev] Re: Fwd: Heads up for Qt5

2012-07-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 28/07/12 12:27, Ralph Sennhauser wrote: On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 15:54:07 +0800 Ben de Groot wrote: We do not have (nor want to support) a qt useflag. We have opted for "qt4" and "qt5" useflags as the most straightforward and least confusing. Indeed, the flag qt has almost disappeared from the

[gentoo-dev] Re: Fwd: Heads up for Qt5

2012-07-28 Thread Duncan
Nikos Chantziaras posted on Sat, 28 Jul 2012 13:07:08 +0300 as excerpted: > On 28/07/12 12:27, Ralph Sennhauser wrote: >> On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 15:54:07 +0800 Ben de Groot >> wrote: >> >>> We do not have (nor want to support) a qt useflag. We have opted for >>> "qt4" and "qt5" useflags as the most

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: virtual/libudev

2012-07-28 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2012.07.27 03:37, Duncan wrote: [snip] > > Not that such promises hold much credibility anyway... see the kde > promise (from Aaron S when he was president of KDE e.v. so as > credible a spokesperson as it gets) continued kde3 support as long > as there were > users. (AFAIK, at least gnom

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fraunhofer FDK license

2012-07-28 Thread Luca Barbato
On 07/26/2012 12:45 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: >>> On Thu, 26 Jul 2012, Luca Barbato wrote: >>> I'd add it, it is a gpl incompatible opensource license. >> >> No problem to add it. But IMHO the usage restriction in section 3 >> makes it non-free: >> >> "You may use this FDK AAC Codec softwar

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fraunhofer FDK license

2012-07-28 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sat, 28 Jul 2012, Luca Barbato wrote: > On 07/26/2012 12:45 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: >> Indeed, and this opens another can of worms since (as far as I can see) >> there >> are no specific license clauses in the AAC patent license for applications >> that may be distributed without

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: virtual/libudev

2012-07-28 Thread Duncan
Roy Bamford posted on Sat, 28 Jul 2012 17:51:47 +0100 as excerpted: > You don't want to listen to Presidents too much. Look at other real > life examples. > > Would you claim that the President of the Gentoo Foundation speaks for > Gentoo? If he were making claims of that nature, yes, barring i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: virtual/libudev

2012-07-28 Thread Peter Stuge
Duncan wrote: > the responsibility of whatever organization to either follow > thru or repudiate, as it's the reputation and credibility of > that organization on the line if they don't. I think it's unreasonable to expect any third party to accept responsibility for a receiver which is over-trus