From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NPUaQ-00081S-DB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:25:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 18F7AE07CD; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:24:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f174.google.com (mail-yx0-f174.google.com [209.85.210.174]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9D6FE07CD for ; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:24:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe4 with SMTP id 4so9399146yxe.32 for ; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:24:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.150.238.4 with SMTP id l4mr24027447ybh.177.1262064264310; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:24:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.100? (CPE001b632008d3-CM0011e67f291d.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [99.232.72.7]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm11513191iwn.11.2009.12.28.21.24.22 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:24:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B399279.2030709@doublecreations.com> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:24:09 -0500 From: Vincent Launchbury 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 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Non-free software in Gentoo References: <4B3843E2.90800@doublecreations.com> <4B386808.8070607@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <4B386808.8070607@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 63633bf7-26e6-4f66-9711-07baef16fde9 X-Archives-Hash: afdc3d8580485b1433473f570c3eddd2 R=E9mi Cardona wrote: > Unless people dedicate time and effort, ACCEPT_LICENSE is useless. Well, I think an incomplete tool is better than no tool at all. Even though it's far from perfect, I still found it very useful to create a free system. I'm certainly interested in helping to improve it. > I'd say this is probably better suited for gentoo-project, but it's > probably ok to start here, to gauge interest :) Thanks, I'll subscribe to gentoo-project also. Jeremy Olexa wrote: > File bugs mate. Licensing is not exactly clear to all users or devs. A= s=20 > can be seen here[1] for dos2unix. It sounds like you care in this area,= =20 > so get involved. That looks like a great starting point, thanks. The bug you mentioned has been fixed already! Robin H. Johnson wrote: > The COPYRIGHT file in dos2unix is actually a 2-clause BSD license. I've > updated the ebuild suitably. Thanks, much appreciated. > File a bug with some ebuilds. It looks like somebody already has. See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D266157. I tested the latest ebuild, and it worked fine (see comment #59.) What would have to be done to get it in the main tree? > A profile is not the answer here. > An optional DEP block || ( media-fonts/corefonts ... ) where the other > item does resolve using ACCEPT_LICENSES is what should be used. I'll have to read through the devmanual, thanks for the pointer. > In your case, I propose that we add one or more stacked groups, with an > initial content as such... I'll start working on expanding LIBRE-FREE-1 then. I assume a bug report would be the correct place to suggest this when I've made a decent start?