On Friday 06 June 2003 21:37, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 08:55:24PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote: > Content-Description: signed data > > > On Friday 06 June 2003 19:33, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > Can you summarize that philosophy? > > > > - Community and freedom. Gentoo is a community-based, volunteer-driven > > project; it will give all its developments back to the community under > > free licenses, and it will never depend on non-free software. It will not > > hide problems from its users. > > Regarding "will never depend on non-free software": recently I tried to > do a simple inspection of the gentoo archives regarding > non-freely-distributable programs, and the results are that there is > seems to be no clear separtion between free and non-free software.
Every ebuild has a LICENSE field, and all licenses are present as files in /usr/portage/licenses/. The user can define which licenses he accepts (default is to accept everything). The licenses aren't (yet) grouped as free and nonfree, perhaps that's the problem you have with it. The part about ever depending on nonfree software is from the Gentoo Social Contract, and it means that the base gentoo installation will never depend on non-free software. Not that we won't include ebuilds for non-free software, or keep them in a separate tree. > > There also seems to be nothing like debian's "contrib" (programs that > depend on non-free programs). > > One example: look at the programs that depend on Java > > > There is also a thriving user community, and we try to keep the > > distinction between users and developers small. It's a natural process > > for users to become developers eventually. > > Hmmm... What about users that don't really want to be developers, but > look for a "good distro" (as a tool)? Well, again, customizability, the power of choice... all these make a good tool no? Plus our actual packages are quite good, too :-) -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key
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