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. 

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