On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 11:16:10AM +0200, Wernfried Haas wrote: > That's very nice from IU for sure and especially if there are not many > (read: one) options to choose from the outcome is pretty obvious. > However, i'm not sure what our Social Contract says about it. It seems > to deal with the operating system itself, but there seem to be no > implications about anything else. So in theory we could host the whole > www.gentoo.org stuff on IIS servers?
Sure. The contract tells our users that we will never depend on non-free
stuff, so the continuance of the distribution is guaranteed.
But Gentoo can surely use propriatary products. Whether or not we want to is
a different question.
Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen
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