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

[Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@gentoo.org>]

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On 1/29/19 7:41 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
> 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)

...and actually has a bit of cruft due to experimenting with
hardware/drivers and apps I didn't ultimately end up using...


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