From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@gentoo.org>
To: Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@gentoo.org>, gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-project] Re: What should the default acceptable licenses be?
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 22:32:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5a20bdb0-c571-fd12-2efa-73ee65469a2d@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e2d92c1c-f129-6c45-becf-6ad48387bf17@gentoo.org>
Kristian Fiskerstrand schrieb:
> In summary the question is whether non-free licenses should be accepted
> by default in Gentoo. today only licenses requiring EULA are not
> accepted by default. So this is a good opportunity to discuss whether we
> should deviate substantially from other distros like Debian.
Which ones are the "other distros" besides Debian?
Fedora/openSUSE/Ubuntu/etc. all ship proprietary parts in default repositories.
> My personal opinion is we should have a default accepting FSF and OSI
> approved free/libre licenses and require acceptance for anything else
> though package.license / ACCEPT_LICENSE. Since we have this model
> already we don't need a separate repository like debian does for its
> binary packages, so any change has relatively minor impact on our users
> as long as it is presented properly and with a proper timeline.
No, the impact is considerable. As I pointed out in the previous
discussion[1], it will require a deblobbed kernel among other things, a
different approach to handling sourceless binaries under a free license (ulm
suggested a no-source-code tag), and no small effort in educating users.
That said, I'm all for it. Gentoo should make users acknowledge when they
install proprietary software.
Best regards,
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
[1]
https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/d2196de6a6c8285bfa9c1b789ef88dae
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-26 21:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-26 21:04 [gentoo-project] What should the default acceptable licenses be? Kristian Fiskerstrand
2019-01-26 21:32 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn [this message]
2019-01-27 9:47 ` [gentoo-project] " Ulrich Mueller
2019-01-26 21:45 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2019-01-26 22:12 ` [gentoo-project] " Michał Górny
2019-01-26 22:51 ` Rich Freeman
2019-01-27 1:25 ` Alec Warner
2019-01-28 22:27 ` Matt Turner
2019-01-29 16:54 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2019-01-29 17:28 ` Brian Evans
2019-02-05 20:03 ` Roy Bamford
2019-01-29 17:53 ` Alec Warner
2019-01-29 18:27 ` Rich Freeman
2019-01-29 18:41 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2019-01-29 18:56 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2019-01-30 0:12 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2019-01-30 0:35 ` Alec Warner
2019-01-29 17:53 ` Rich Freeman
2019-01-31 16:53 ` Matt Turner
2019-02-05 23:47 ` [gentoo-project] " Kristian Fiskerstrand
2019-02-12 19:40 ` Alec Warner
2019-02-13 9:34 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2019-02-13 9:50 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2019-02-13 10:44 ` Ulrich Mueller
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