[haiku] Re: Migration from Basho to Official Localization of Haiku

  • From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:31:46 +0100 CET

> > I don't see how closed source apps would be part of our svn...
> > If you want it part of the base system, it would better be licenced
> > under MIT licence ...
> 
> "base system" is a bit fuzzy. IMO, the svn repository should only 
> contain 
> open source software available as under a free license. Regarding 
> optional 
> packages (or later packages installable via the package manager), 
> closed 
> source software is fine by me, but I think I'd prefer our releases to 
> contain free software only, respectively at least make non-free 
> software an 
> opt-in installation option.

As was said by Adrien, I'd really prefer to have the source available 
(even under LGPL) so it's buildable for other archs (ARM but also PPC).

I didn't give up yet on the "distro" system to fetch and build as much 
as possible at once.

François.

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