On Friday 21 November 2003 19:07, Erik Swanson wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 09:32, Jon Portnoy wrote:
> > 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.
>
> My suggestion of a conservative default was under the assumption that it
> would be trivial to accept additional licenses. An interactive "y" after
> being shown the license, for example. I agree that a more liberal
> default would be in order if it required substantial effort (such as
> editing make.conf) to accept additional licenses.

I don't want interactive "y"'s as in that case I cannot redirect my output to 
a logfile anymore. 

Paul

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