-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Lance Albertson wrote: > Peter Gordon wrote: >> Matthew Marlowe wrote: >>> If we could get a license donated, my vote would be to switch to Atlassian >>> Jira, http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira. It seems to be gaining >>> mindshare rather quickly, and the company I work for just shelled out >>> $2,400 >>> because they liked it so much more than RT/Bugzilla. I believe it supports >>> multiple DB backends, including all the usual suspects. >> Maybe it's just me, but I think that having such a core component of the >> distribution be proprietary is in complete violation of Gentoo's Social >> Contract[1] (if not the letter of it, then its spirit of openness). It >> states: >> >> "Gentoo will never never depend upon a piece of software or >> metadata unless it conforms to the GNU General Public License, >> the GNU Lesser General Public License, the Creative Commons - >> Attribution/Share Alike or some other license approved by the >> Open Source Initiative (OSI)." >> >> Isn't this one of the driving reasons why our forums run phpBB instead >> of something like vBulletin, for example? :) >> >> [1] http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/contract.xml > > I'm not entirely sure if this is directed towards the supporting web > applications or of Gentoo itself. To me its directed towards the meta > distribution and not any of the underlying support mechanisms of Gentoo. > If we were to use some non-gpl webapp, the underlying Gentoo system you > run does not depend on a non-gpl piece of software. A bug tracking > system is not an underlying component of Gentoo. Its just a tool that > helps with development of Gentoo. > > But anyways, some people view it in the strict sense and they're > entitled to it. That's just how I view it when I read it. Its a bit > vague on what Gentoo really is. Is it talking only about the meta > distribution? Or that plus the underlying supporting systems that help > run Gentoo? >
I think it is perfectly valid we use this kind of tools for development; as far as i know, our SC refers to those components (in form of software and metadata) to be free software upon which a user depend to build a Gentoo system, and this isn't one of those components. Though i admit it might bring some kind of 'controversy' . /me remenbers bitkeeper - -- Luis F. Araujo "araujo at gentoo.org" Gentoo Linux -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE1ESYdZ42PGEF17URApflAKCAkBVcgD5hgS0ASFyNXz3wS1Mx5ACg6Tov IjDaN+ENPP1t9nckRAsf2ZA= =6fxU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
