Nominations open for the 2007/08 Trustees

On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 14:06 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > Well, we'd be the second distribution, as Debian
uses the SFC.  Also,
> > realize that we've already gone through all of
this with the SFC and
> > wouldn't even be bringing it up as an option if
the SFC hadn't already
> > approved us.  They are aware of the state of our
tree and that we do
> > ship *ebuilds* for proprietary software.  Remember
that we don't
> > distribute closed-source software, we distribute
*ebuilds* for said
> > software.
> 
> Are you sure we don't mirror any binary software or
non-free software? I
> would be shocked if our mirrors contained nothing
violating the
> open-source definition.

We have lots that violates "open source" by any
definition, but we don't
create it.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee
Gentoo Foundation

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:03:50 -0700
Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 14:06 -0700, Donnie Berkholz
wrote:
> > Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > > Well, we'd be the second distribution, as
Debian uses the SFC.
> > > Also, realize that we've already gone through
all of this with
> > > the SFC and wouldn't even be bringing it up
as an option if the
> > > SFC hadn't already approved us.  They are
aware of the state of
> > > our tree and that we do ship *ebuilds* for
proprietary software.
> > > Remember that we don't distribute
closed-source software, we
> > > distribute *ebuilds* for said software.
> > 
> > Are you sure we don't mirror any binary software
or non-free
> > software? I would be shocked if our mirrors
contained nothing
> > violating the open-source definition.
> 
> We have lots that violates "open source" by
any definition, but we
> don't create it.

I completely agree with you. But the part quoted by Ryan
Hill doesn't
say created. It says distributed. Perhaps we need to modify
the wording
of their standard agreement to reflect how distributions
work.

Thanks,
Donnie