From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18897 invoked by uid 1002); 21 Nov 2003 17:32:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 8137 invoked from network); 21 Nov 2003 17:32:56 -0000 Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 12:32:54 -0500 From: Jon Portnoy To: Erik Swanson Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20031121173254.GA24867@cerberus.oppresses.us> References: <200311191114.25081.pauldv@gentoo.org> <200311211050.59578.jasonbstubbs@mailandnews.com> <200311210226.hAL2QNe4093277@mxsf04.cluster1.charter.net> <20031121031332.GB22586@time> <20031121100737.GJ1502@gentoo.org> <32878.141.166.236.158.1069410832.squirrel@spidermail.richmond.edu> <1069412078.4883.15.camel@bengal.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1069412078.4883.15.camel@bengal.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo internal structure X-Archives-Salt: f88c6b0c-a786-4f4a-86a6-ec33d7e21b52 X-Archives-Hash: ac4c854d3a6cff80a4c8e92654452fc4 On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 02:54:39AM -0800, Erik Swanson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 02:33, donnie berkholz wrote: > > I think we should accept all the licenses by default except the ones for > > which the ACCEPT_LICENSE variable originally existed (the id games ones), > > since users must be forced to read and agree to those. This would keep the > > change seamless for the user unless said user wishes to change things. > > As a user, I'd prefer if only OSI-approved licenses were accepted by > default. This also seems like it'd be most in keeping with the Gentoo > Social Contract. > The social contract states that Gentoo Linux will never _depend_ on nonfree software. However, we still provide it. If we moved over to a Debian-esque "if you want nonfree software, you need to change settings" it would irritate a decently large number of people. (And before anyone accuses me of being an anti-FSF type, my license plate is 'GNU') -- Jon Portnoy avenj/irc.freenode.net -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list