From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18555 invoked by uid 1002); 21 Nov 2003 15:20:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 4704 invoked from network); 21 Nov 2003 15:20:32 -0000 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <200311191114.25081.pauldv@gentoo.org> <200311211050.59578.jasonbstubbs@mailandnews.com> From: Matthew Kennedy Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 09:16:19 -0600 In-Reply-To: <200311211050.59578.jasonbstubbs@mailandnews.com> (Jason Stubbs's message of "Fri, 21 Nov 2003 10:50:59 +0900") Message-ID: <8765hdu4zg.fsf@killr.ath.cx> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo internal structure X-Archives-Salt: fe4ee4e8-0206-41b6-b8df-45b5c098ad0c X-Archives-Hash: fbf91100655ace77e6089d08016b1c86 Jason Stubbs writes: [...] > massive amount of licenses, I suggest having reasonable defaults for > ACCEPT_LICENSES is make.defaults. > > The reason for this is that the free vs non-free questioning comes up on -user > every month or two. Each time, the answer is invariably "you wont find what > you're looking for here". I would prefer to be able to say, "sure, Gentoo can > do that". And it seems if the above were implemented it would be as easy as > ACCEPT_LICENSES="-* GPL-1 GPL-2 LGPL-2 LGPL-2.1". (I'm not so familiar with > which licenses but I'm sure someone that cares would be). > > As a added benefit, using something similar to the above would ensure that a > stage3 tarball would never be 'polluted'. I'm sure there would be other > benefits, too. [...] Personally, I am only interested in supporting and using free software, so... The best solution is just to remove support for anything non-free in portage and to also remove any non-free software from our mirrors. Let some other external project step up to the plate and provide a non-free overlay if they wish. This would put us in a position to be the only GNU/Linux distribution out there which is truly Free according to GNU standards (AFAIK). Wouldn't that be a great selling point? Failing that, your idea is a good one, and definitely worth implementing. I would like to spend some time to get that feature added to portage (as a patch, since I'm not a portage developer). I think it will require others to sort through the large list of licenses in /usr/portage/licenses and decide what can be considered Free Software. Matt -- Matthew Kennedy Gentoo Linux Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list