On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 12:49:33PM -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: > It might be worth noting that it appears that Gentoo would be the first > distribution to join. I'd be interested in knowing if the SFC considers > distributing closed-source or proprietary software (nero, ati/nvidia > drivers, vmware) to be "producing non-free software (as per the > Conservancy's charitable purpose)" as mentioned in section 2(b) of their > notes. Paragraph 2(a) seems to prohibit it. > > > a. The Project Will Be Free Software. The Conservancy and the Project > > agree that > > any software distributed by the Project will be distributed solely as > > Free Software. > > If that's not a problem I think this is a great idea. >
It's not a problem - what we actually produce as a product, the ebuilds, etc., are free to distribute. -- -----o()o---------------------------------------------- Michael Cummings | #gentoo-dev, #gentoo-perl Gentoo Perl Dev | on irc.freenode.net Gentoo/SPARC Gentoo/AMD64 GPG: 0543 6FA3 5F82 3A76 3BF7 8323 AB5C ED4E 9E7F 4E2E -----o()o---------------------------------------------- Hi, I'm a .signature virus! Please copy me in your ~/.signature.
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