On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 08:34:52PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 17 May 2006 20:11:57 +0200 Wernfried Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | That's not the point as i wasn't talking about single developers but > | Gentoo as an organisation. Paludis is not in any way under Gentoo's > | control. If the paludis devs decide to change the license for paludis > | 1.0 to a commercial one, Gentoo would be unable do anything about it > | (except fork the last GPLed version). > > And what if the Bash licence changes? Or the Python licence?
That's a bit different as these are dependencies. Paludis has those too.
Let's concentrate on the package manager - and as said there is no way
for Gentoo to have any influence on paludis.
> | If the paludis devs decide to
> | terminate all ricers with RTFM, Gentoo can't do anything about it. I
> | guess the list could be continued with other examples.
> | I'm not saying the paludis devs may do such a thing, but they could
> | and Gentoo couldn't do anything about it.
>
> Yes, and the Bash developers *could* decide to make new Bash versions
> print out an ASCII art diagram of a BSD daemon sporking Larry.
Please don't turn this in another pink elephant argument.
> | As long a project is within Gentoo, every developer does at least have
> | some influence, be it by voting the council or whatsoever.
>
> And just what do you think would happen if the council were to demand
> that Portage implements a new feature?
Depends - but more than if it demands a new paludis feature.
> | As for your long standing feature requests, this has nothing to do
> | with the issue, unless you're trying to bash the portage team, which
> | has nothing to do with this thread.
>
> Sure it does. It's a perfect demonstration that the needs and demands
> of Gentoo have no influence over what happens to Portage.
Sorry, but all i see is bashing portage, and i don't really like it.
cheers,
Wernfried
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