Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-21 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Long wrote: > As for potentially useful, so was Internet Explorer, last time I looked at > what you could do with its Object Model. I still ain't voting to bring it > to Gentoo.. ;) Looks like you lost your vote :) # ChangeLog for app-emulation

[gentoo-dev] Re: QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-18 Thread Duncan
Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:50:51 -0700: > On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 08:58 +, Duncan wrote: >> So at this point it's pretty much up to the maintainer. Why are the >> rest of us still discussing it? > > Because, like ever

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-18 Thread Daniel Ostrow
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 21:11 +0200, Wernfried Haas wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 11:39:26AM -0700, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > Internet Explorer doesn't even *run* on Gentoo. If it did, it > > would likely be in the tree since quite a few people would likely use > > it, even if just for testing.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-18 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 11:39:26AM -0700, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > Internet Explorer doesn't even *run* on Gentoo. If it did, it > would likely be in the tree since quite a few people would likely use > it, even if just for testing. I know that if I were able to test things > on IE from Linux wi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-18 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 08:58 +, Duncan wrote: > So at this point it's pretty much up to the maintainer. Why are the rest > of us still discussing it? Because, like everything else, too many people on this list have to get in the last word. Also, there's nothing in our policy that really keep

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-18 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 06:01 +0100, Steve Long wrote: > Stephen Bennett wrote: > > Not everyone sees that as a reason not to use a potentially useful > > piece of software. We're not debian. > > Could you clarify whether this is indeed a Gentoo QA issue, or in fact a > licensing issue? If the latte

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-18 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 20:05 +0100, Steve Long wrote: > keep. Or is it that Skype are a big company so we have to kowtow? /me is > well-confused. It has nothing to do with money or the company, and everything to do with the number of people using it. While ion3 is uncommonly used, skype is much mo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-18 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
Steev Klimaszewski wrote: Steve Long wrote: Stephen Bennett wrote: Not everyone sees that as a reason not to use a potentially useful piece of software. We're not debian. Could you clarify whether this is indeed a Gentoo QA issue, or in fact a licensing issue? If the latter case, this discuss

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-18 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
Steve Long wrote: Stephen Bennett wrote: Not everyone sees that as a reason not to use a potentially useful piece of software. We're not debian. Could you clarify whether this is indeed a Gentoo QA issue, or in fact a licensing issue? If the latter case, this discussion should prob'y go to the

[gentoo-dev] Re: QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-18 Thread Duncan
Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:08:13 +0100: > Josh Saddler wrote: >> As we've established earlier, being closed-source is not sufficient >> reason for removing any program from Portage; you should have read the >> rest of the threa

[gentoo-dev] Re: QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-17 Thread Steve Long
Stephen Bennett wrote: > Not everyone sees that as a reason not to use a potentially useful > piece of software. We're not debian. Could you clarify whether this is indeed a Gentoo QA issue, or in fact a licensing issue? If the latter case, this discussion should prob'y go to the new -project ml i

[gentoo-dev] Re: QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-17 Thread Steve Long
Josh Saddler wrote: > As we've established earlier, being closed-source is not sufficient > reason for removing any program from Portage; you should have read the > rest of the thread. No but fascist license conditions are; you should have read the ion3 discussion. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing l

[gentoo-dev] Re: QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-17 Thread Steve Long
Richard Freeman wrote: > Agreed, although I think most people would agree with the principle > being alluded to. I don't think many people had issues with making > users fetch their java files, as they generally had stable URLs and were > hosted for a long time. The real issue is with software wh