From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vijay Lakshminarayanan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Git mirrors Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:51:42 +0530 Message-ID: <87wrc9lgop.fsf@gmail.com> References: <8762k095n4.fsf@lifelogs.com> <871uuksdxi.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87lissh32y.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87zkh8e286.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87d3e4gttq.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87ehyjrhxh.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87d3e2rfte.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <878voqfiaw.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87lisq8bu3.fsf@gmail.com> <87pqi2dwds.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87hb3e86vi.fsf@gmail.com> <87vcrunfxw.fsf@gnu.org> <87lisqnf47.fsf@interalia.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318476120 6624 80.91.229.12 (13 Oct 2011 03:22:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:22:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Burton Samograd Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 13 05:21:57 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1REBrn-0005SB-Qx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:21:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38697 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1REBrn-0001lM-8g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:21:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44672) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1REBrl-0001lH-HD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:21:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1REBrk-0002kr-CJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:21:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-gy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.160.169]:54992) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1REBrk-0002kn-9s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:21:52 -0400 Original-Received: by gya6 with SMTP id 6so1659209gya.0 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:21:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=hk2FRUP8wTiY2NnM9MhJp2rJWDqDTrlDwmpCuhZuCt8=; b=iW+S/NPlItyk9PgQvTohOC7b8/Dshc1VapT6v/8YbFCRaC/gjEszhrR4bHMGiDu59d ivx8+TbedU6FSCkeOMTVbsogScL37AuPK3HgSoXXr0vGycboDPHdvd6WD1zjPqm5iDUz lGZ6vuk20pv2EhC0F2/zdmO0DwVgroaYIiqGI= Original-Received: by 10.68.8.233 with SMTP id u9mr5578440pba.30.1318476111302; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:21:51 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from BALROG ([115.184.108.22]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w4sm6524091pbf.6.2011.10.12.20.21.48 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:21:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87lisqnf47.fsf@interalia.com> (Burton Samograd's message of "Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:12:40 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (windows-nt) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.160.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:145093 Archived-At: Burton Samograd writes: > Giuseppe Scrivano writes: > >> Vijay Lakshminarayanan writes: >> >>> Git, Linux etc., fall under the principle of "Open Source" which is a >>> pragmatic rather than political movement. This movement states that >>> software must be Open Sourced because that's the best way to develop >>> software in general and that free software is of higher (technical) >>> quality than proprietary software. >> >> so what? Does it make Git less Free? > > Git is licensed under GPL V2, so I can't see how git is any less free > than bzr. What does it take to make a project an 'offical GNU project'? > Why could git not be an 'offical GNU project'? And bzr is licensed under GPLv3 which is a freer license than v2. > -- > Burton Samograd -- Cheers ~vijay Gnus should be more complicated.