From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C47D41381F3 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 11:31:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2010EE0A84; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 11:31:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 88B58E0A83 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 11:30:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.4.5] (blfd-4d082b35.pool.mediaWays.net [77.8.43.53]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: hasufell) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5FA9433EAAB for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 11:30:58 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <51F8F56E.8050402@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:30:54 +0200 From: hasufell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130630 Thunderbird/17.0.7 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] changing the default of ACCEPT_LICENSE in portage References: <51F16EF7.30606@gentoo.org> <51F7DB94.4000200@gentoo.org> <20130731011750.03559073@marga.jer-c2.orkz.net> <11373502.YvSFGzKmHV@kailua> In-Reply-To: <11373502.YvSFGzKmHV@kailua> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6a1pre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: aedfe416-92f7-4d1e-99fa-6a088dafee4d X-Archives-Hash: d869e5b858cf9006eac82ec6ef404284 On 07/31/2013 01:27 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Am Mittwoch 31 Juli 2013, 01:17:50 schrieb Jeroen Roovers: >> On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:28:20 +0200 >> >> hasufell wrote: >>>> Gentoo has been and should remain a pragmatic distribution rather >>>> than promoting a specific licensing philosophy to our users. >>> >>> We are already doing that by declaring: >>> "Gentoo is and will remain Free Software". >> >> I disagree with your interpretation. This text has always been about >> the software Gentoo produces, not about the distro of multi-license >> packages that this software allows you to compile. So it's about the >> package manager, ebuilds, eclasses, helper tools, boot scripts and so >> on that the Gentoo Project authors. >> > > Actually, Jer makes a very good point here which I would like to > wholeheartedly support. > > I have always found it a positive side of Gentoo that regarding the software > which we package we focus on practicalities instead of ideology. > Free software is more practical and gentoo in it's very nature proves that point.