Re: [gentoo-project] What should the default acceptable licenses be?

[Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@gentoo.org>]

[-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1173 bytes --]

On 1/29/19 7:27 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> Not depending on non-free software sounds nice in principle until you
> start talking about all those little things that make physical
> hardware actually work.  If it were a practical option I'd be all for
> it.  Otherwise this is a choice that really only exists on paper.

This is a matter of documentation in the handbook, though.

e.g on my laptop (all of my systems have similar setups already) which
has ACCEPT_LICENSE="-* @FREE -AGPL-3 -AGPL-3+ freedist ", the exception
list still only are has
# cat /etc/portage/package.license/*|wc -l
21
... of which 4 entries are related to AGPL and as such wouldn't really
be relevant for the proposed change. and that is a full desktop (laptop)
system, most systems have far less. In terms of linux-firmware, it
requires a simple two entries
sys-kernel/linux-firmware linux-firmware no-source-code
sys-kernel/gentoo-sources linux-firmware


.. but at least that gives specific knowledge of the non-free installs.

-- 
Kristian Fiskerstrand
OpenPGP keyblock reachable at hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net
fpr:94CB AFDD 3034 5109 5618 35AA 0B7F 8B60 E3ED FAE3


[-- Attachment #2: OpenPGP digital signature --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 488 bytes --]