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 3511C138334 for ; Thu, 16 May 2019 09:29:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7E4E9E0839; Thu, 16 May 2019 09:28:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (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 1C17EE082B for ; Thu, 16 May 2019 09:28:55 +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 07913344447 for ; Thu, 16 May 2019 09:28:53 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 05:28:51 -0400 From: Aaron Bauman To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item for review: Change of ACCEPT_LICENSE default (v3) Message-ID: <20190516092851.GB26066@beaners> 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="MfFXiAuoTsnnDAfZ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.11.4 (2019-03-13) X-Archives-Salt: ffb53cca-9a78-4919-b32c-c9ac785e6e93 X-Archives-Hash: d3035d0eb726f029d741d0267e9bc85e --MfFXiAuoTsnnDAfZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > Current plan is that this will go live on next Sunday, 2019-05-19. >=20 >=20 > Title: Change of ACCEPT_LICENSE default > Author: Ulrich M=C3=BCller > Posted: 2019-05-19 > 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, > the Open Source Initiative, or that follow the Free Software > Definition. >=20 > 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 @BINARY-REDISTRIBUTABLE >=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. Further > information about licenses can be found in the Gentoo Handbook [4] > and on the license groups wiki page [5]. >=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 > [4] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Working/Portage#Licenses > [5] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/License_groups lgtm --=20 Cheers, Aaron --MfFXiAuoTsnnDAfZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAABCAAdFiEEiDRK3jyVBE/RkymqpRQw84X1dt0FAlzdLVIACgkQpRQw84X1 dt2cOwgAgeNpjm1q0iNLpGJJq3AQXCyWCuFWB+XP22W82p76eX2AyNArfeKpNf0P xfFnOTZDqwZPw6dSnpZMlJGMRagT4Hg1Exz43aks8ZsWOhbThz/JSyJ3tWlv7tbW Z5uJA8P0R5/4yvRCiturkFNkfwnp2y/al4gSf1BIxNfltlwHQ2tSXj/qBDqryRbV 2I7nayQF46fGsnThVwDAIHl5thLNtDjeQXHaoDH8IfqDyyt1vOqfeDyhSia54gcd QO7Wg2SdGinfbCPMFAnXfjAyrZkXbCFhp3yeth1KrJjF1xcla63MAxMjuw1qpj/5 4wKqyd3z/sMMQnw86VAvLfimU6Y47Q== =zkMc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MfFXiAuoTsnnDAfZ--