On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 12:37 -0800, Luis Villa wrote: > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Lefty (石鏡 ) <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 1/17/10 6:52 AM, "Ciaran O'Riordan" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> GNOME has a policy (written or not) that prohibits importing non-free > > software > >> into its repositories. > > > > I'm not personally aware of a written policy to this effect. If there's an > > "unwritten policy", I'd encourage the Board to write it down in clear and > > explicit terms and get it agreed to by the membership, since there's not > > necessarily any actual common understanding of what such a policy "says" or > > means, if that's the case. > > To the best of my knowledge, that policy has never been written down. > That is because there is and always has been a very, very, very clear > and common understanding that this is the policy. It takes almost > willful ignorance of our history, culture and policy to suggest > otherwise.
Perhaps less official because it's just on the wiki, but: http://live.gnome.org/ProjectPrerequisites "The project must be free/open source software." But yes, Luis, I wholly agree with you. I can't imagine why anybody would ever think it's OK to host non-free software on gnome.org. -- Shaun McCance http://syllogist.net/ _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
