On Wed, 17 May 2006 20:11:57 +0200 Wernfried Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | That's not the point as i wasn't talking about single developers but | Gentoo as an organisation. Paludis is not in any way under Gentoo's | control. If the paludis devs decide to change the license for paludis | 1.0 to a commercial one, Gentoo would be unable do anything about it | (except fork the last GPLed version).
And what if the Bash licence changes? Or the Python licence? | If the paludis devs decide to | terminate all ricers with RTFM, Gentoo can't do anything about it. I | guess the list could be continued with other examples. | I'm not saying the paludis devs may do such a thing, but they could | and Gentoo couldn't do anything about it. Yes, and the Bash developers *could* decide to make new Bash versions print out an ASCII art diagram of a BSD daemon sporking Larry. | As long a project is within Gentoo, every developer does at least have | some influence, be it by voting the council or whatsoever. And just what do you think would happen if the council were to demand that Portage implements a new feature? | As for your long standing feature requests, this has nothing to do | with the issue, unless you're trying to bash the portage team, which | has nothing to do with this thread. Sure it does. It's a perfect demonstration that the needs and demands of Gentoo have no influence over what happens to Portage. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
