[SlugLUG] Debian As A Server

[cerise at armory.com]

On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 03:28:08PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> I see in the Web archives that cerise at armory.com wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 10:52:27AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> 
> > > Neither Debian nor Ubuntu (nor Gentoo, either) includes in its
> > > official collections software that may not be lawfully
> > > redistributed, such as proprietary codecs, etc.  However, those are
> > > available from third-party package sources.
> > 
> > Not so with respect to gentoo.  There are several commercial ebuilds.  
> > Especially in games-*/
> 
> Excuse me, but you seem to be making a non-sequitur statement, and
> thereby leading people towards an inference that is just not correct.

   You're excused, but you're still off-path.  Gentoo doesn't really have
official collections of software (save what you get on install CDs), so
discussion of collections of software with respect to Gentoo don't really
make sense.
   Now, if you're talking about the packaging ability -- which is the
only way that it does make sense to discuss Gentoo there -- you're plainly
incorrect.
   Also, "non-sequitur" doesn't mean what you think it means, unless you
believe that my statement really has no relation to what you said.
 
> (People _do_ sometimes construct ebuilds that are wholly or partially
> under non-redistributable licensing.  However, Gentoo policy requires
> them to add a RESTRICT="nomirror" directive into the ebuild, thereby 
> preventing it from being accepted into Gentoo proper.  See:
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=1, 
> section 1b.)

   False.  icc's an obvious one.  So are several games-*/* entries.
 
-Phil/CERisE