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ZDNet: Gentoo: We’re Not the Napster of Open Source

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“In response to my recent blog entry regarding Sun’s
OpenSolaris, its 1600 patents and whether they’ll create a safer
legal haven to which Linux developers will be drawn, the folks at
Gentoo are disputing my characterization of their Portaris and
Portage technologies as being Napster-like facilitators that can
grease the wheels of open source license violation. In a string of
e-mails with Pieter Van den Abeele wrote ‘To be completely honest,
at this time Portaris has not been merged with main Portage
tree….Unlike Napster we do not allow the user to violate any
licenses. If we are made aware of possible ways in which our
technology can create products that violate the component licenses,
then we’ll work on fixing those anomalies…'”

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