From: Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:20:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimwPAjDE4Rcpy3q4249ZDdEQqcBfvvH8tOJZC5m@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19811.31252.358245.222934@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de>
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:55 AM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> that might disallow it for binaries, but it doesnt disallow it from
>> being used in ebuilds. same situation as binary kernel drivers --
>> make it the end user's problem.
>
> Why should we impose such trouble on our users, when there's a (IMHO
> superior) replacement? Build gnuplot with USE="cairo" and you can get
> PDF output with the "pdfcairo" terminal. Even with proper utf-8
> support, which was always broken with pdflib.
+1 to both - if a free alternative works then we should always prefer
it. However, at worst linking license issues should just force us to
set RESTRICT="bindist" or the like (and mirror as well if we can't
distribute the source). As long as users don't redistribute software
they don't need to worry about licenses if the person sending it to
them had the license to distribute it in the first place.
Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-22 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-22 5:32 [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib Jeremy Olexa
2011-02-22 6:11 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-02-22 7:29 ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-02-22 8:00 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-02-22 8:55 ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-02-22 16:20 ` Rich Freeman [this message]
2011-02-22 17:24 ` Francesco R
2011-02-22 17:54 ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-02-22 18:20 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-02-22 18:39 ` Tomáš Chvátal
2011-02-22 19:13 ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-02-22 19:40 ` Matt Turner
2011-02-22 20:18 ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-02-22 20:47 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-02-22 19:34 ` Antoni Grzymala
2011-02-23 17:05 ` James Cloos
2011-02-23 22:21 ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-02-25 1:01 ` James Cloos
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