On Wednesday 28 January 2004 11:45, Dan Armak wrote: > On Wednesday 28 January 2004 03:21, J�rg Schaible wrote: > > But if you have the impression, that it is not ready yet (although they > > are self-hosting for years), you could also take a look at Perforce > > (www.perforce.com). It is already in portage. Although it is commercial > > and closed source, it is free for OSS development [...] > > Our social contract says "Gentoo Linux will never depend upon a piece of > software unless it conforms to... some license approved by the Open Source > Initiative (OSI.)". > Even if you read that to mean only what users have to use and not > developers, I for one very much don't want to have to use non-free software > to develop with Gentoo. > > Besides, the Perforce terms are that you have to sign a license agreement > to get these free licenses, and the agreement is good for one year. Every > year they give you a new agreement to sign, and there are no rules on how > they may change these agreements. I'd not want to bind Gentoo to something > like that.
I agree with you on this. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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