Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:08:13 +0100:
> Josh Saddler wrote: >> As we've established earlier, being closed-source is not sufficient >> reason for removing any program from Portage; you should have read the >> rest of the thread. > > No but fascist license conditions are; you should have read the ion3 > discussion. Personal feelings about fascist licenses aside (sig says it well enough), it seems to me the resolution is pretty much settled, so there's little more to discuss. 1) Given the current situation, permanent unstable would seem the best possible Gentoo could do. How could one sanely argue for stable? 2) Someone mentioned actually, you know, /asking/ them! <g> We'll never know if they'll change until we do. 3) Beyond that, it would seem to be up to the package maintainer. If he wishes to ask, and gets a positive response, great. If not, well, is it worth it to him to continue dealing with it in the tree as permanently unstable? There doesn't seem to be any huge Gentoo policy conflict in it remaining in the tree as long as there's a maintainer wishing to do the dirty work on it, as long as /is/ clearly permanently unstable. If upstream won't work with us, well, I guess users have yet another use for package.keywords, if they wish to continue using it. The Gentoo policy should be clear enough (and can be made clearer with appropriate ewarn or the like messages, if necessary). 4) Another alternative would be to remove it from the tree, but maintain it in the official VoIP overlay. Again, if they maintainer wishes, I don't see a policy preventing that, either. 5) Again, beyond the permanent unstable if it /does/ remain in the tree, it's primarily up to the maintainer. Thus, if they don't wish to handle it, they can drop it, and if no one else does either, well, it'll be out of the tree /and/ official overlay. Someone could then put in in an unofficial overlay, or possibly it could go in Sunrise or other supervised user contributed overlay.* So at this point it's pretty much up to the maintainer. Why are the rest of us still discussing it? ___ * Did the discussion on a sunset overlay or the equivalent ever go anywhere, or did that get merged into sunrise, or... ? -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
