Gentoo's Social Contract Bugzilla (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for August)

[Peter Gordon]

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
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Re: Gentoo's Social Contract Bugzilla (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for August)

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 16:30:03 -0700 Peter Gordon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| 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? :)

In the past, it's been more or less agreed that it's not depending
upon it if it uses an open data format... There was talk of moving the
forums to proprietary software at one point, for example.

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Ciaran McCreesh
Mail: ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk


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