From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CF738138334 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2019 03:56:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6AFE7E08F0; Wed, 24 Apr 2019 03:56:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (dev.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DDDFCE08C8 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2019 03:56:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (pool-72-66-49-205.washdc.east.verizon.net [72.66.49.205]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: bman) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D3F62342284 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2019 03:56:04 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 23:56:01 -0400 From: Aaron Bauman To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] News item for review: Change of ACCEPT_LICENSE default Message-ID: <20190424035601.GA29627@monkey> References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) X-Archives-Salt: f1be1635-d8e0-45a5-9463-75b23716e5bc X-Archives-Hash: a17db143689dac8ce83087cdcc5ea088 --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 10:11:04AM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > Hello, >=20 > As the Council has decided in its 20190210 meeting, we are about to > change the ACCEPT_LICENSE default in the base profile (pending final > acknowledgement from RelEng). >=20 > Please review the corresponding news item included below. >=20 >=20 > Title: Change of ACCEPT_LICENSE default > Author: Ulrich Mueller > Posted: 2019-04-XX > Revision: 1 > News-Item-Format: 2.0 >=20 > The default set of accepted licenses has been changed [1,2] to: >=20 > ACCEPT_LICENSE=3D"-* @FREE" >=20 > This means that by default only free software and documentation > will be installable. The "FREE" license group is defined in the > profiles/license_groups file in the Gentoo repository. It contains > licenses that are explicitly approved by the Free Software Foundation > or by the Open Source Initiative, or that follow the Free Software > Definition. > It would probably read better as: "It contains licenses that are explicitly approved by the Free Software Foundation, the Open Source Initiative, or that follow the Free Software Definition." > The system wide default for the accepted licenses is controlled by > the ACCEPT_LICENSE variable in /etc/portage/make.conf, or it can be > specified on a per-package basis in /etc/portage/package.license. >=20 > For example, to allow the app-arch/unrar and sys-kernel/linux-firmware > packages to be installed, the following lines would have to be added > to /etc/portage/package.license: >=20 > app-arch/unrar unRAR > sys-kernel/linux-firmware linux-firmware no-source-code >=20 > If you want to revert to the previous default, add the following line > to /etc/portage/make.conf: >=20 > ACCEPT_LICENSE=3D"* -@EULA" >=20 > This will permit all licenses, except End User License Agreements that > require reading and signing an acceptance agreement. Note that this > will also accept non-free software and documentation. >=20 > See GLEP 23 [3] as well as the make.conf(5) and portage(5) man pages > for the detailed syntax of the ACCEPT_LICENSE variable. >=20 > [1] https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20190210-summary.txt > [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/676248 > [3] https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0023.html --=20 Cheers, Aaron --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAABCAAdFiEEiDRK3jyVBE/RkymqpRQw84X1dt0FAly/3lAACgkQpRQw84X1 dt243Qf/R8sOJTDARb1y1UL13/9S/C7lCZtMcuCqo7wMiC/sdfm/aqMRmO9Fzq0d UABfbIls1si0PXkAlqfnXKI8nbXw75gTTEyN2qpKpTo7bMJpC6GCtY13gLUAmDoG K34xrRA4xmKJIGX2UiCaRvSo1py2mMsPxUYewlDJYJXojEIQ8JYAzAnfkvABvfQG a39jZPgOCzGBQ1vrC3eT7BbWX4odzRuO2hBwU4o3TyDwIaB57VROVH8fR68I0n4u VvDAK60iCnkkC35T97DKwAN8P5IgGI9lcN2u6Je+F83BJOAOVoUC9Cd5J1Pex36F bCfDWsi2aGqZaiMerOgPBexifwWMkQ== =IVZO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb--