On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:12 AM, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:25 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org> > wrote: >> >> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 1:57 AM, Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org> >> wrote: >> > ...you can call yourself open source software all you want, >> > but unless you get an exception from Fedora Packaging Committee >> > you are not open enough for the distribution to consider your work... >> >> But that's doesn't make your project invalid or useless. > > > Right. > > I don't know where you're coming from Roman, but the Foundation doesn't > require our projects to be built via "bootsrappable [sic] from source using > *only* open source software binaries as the input". Never has, never will. > So to Jan's original question: totally fine, no issues with compiler > dependencies for certain platforms.
We're in total agreement. I was just articulating a principle that increases downstream consumption of our projects, but in no way was trying to position that principle as part of the policy. > Our software is defined by ALv2 and the "Category" licenses for > dependencies. > > We are Open Source by the OSI definition, and any reasonable person's > definition. If Fedora believes otherwise, then they better pony up a reason > why. I can't believe they think ASF software is not Open Source, so I don't > know where you're going with that. Lets not get ahead of ourselves, shall we? ;-) Everything I said in this thread is *my* opinion on what an ultimate definition of open source project must include (or at least recommend). Fedora has a set of principles around what they include in a distro. These are different. What I was saying is that their packaging principle actually makes sense to me as part of the OSI definition. As to the reason why I feel this is a fundamental feature of a true open source project -- we can discuss that in a different thread. I do feel pretty strongly about that. Thanks, Roman. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
