Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item for review: Change of ACCEPT_LICENSE default (v3)

[Aaron Bauman <bman@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 10:45:02AM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> Another iteration, due to an upcoming restructuring of the
> linux-firmware package. Only change in v3 is the second line in the
> package.license file which now contains the @BINARY-REDISTRIBUTABLE
> group instead of individual licenses.
> 
> Current plan is that this will go live on next Sunday, 2019-05-19.
> 
> 
> Title: Change of ACCEPT_LICENSE default
> Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
> Posted: 2019-05-19
> Revision: 1
> News-Item-Format: 2.0
> 
> The default set of accepted licenses has been changed [1,2] to:
> 
>    ACCEPT_LICENSE="-* @FREE"
> 
> 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,
> 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.
> 
> 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:
> 
>    app-arch/unrar unRAR
>    sys-kernel/linux-firmware @BINARY-REDISTRIBUTABLE
> 
> If you want to revert to the previous default, add the following line
> to /etc/portage/make.conf:
> 
>    ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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. Further
> information about licenses can be found in the Gentoo Handbook [4]
> and on the license groups wiki page [5].
> 
> [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
> [4] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Working/Portage#Licenses
> [5] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/License_groups

lgtm

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Cheers,
Aaron

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