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From: Fredrik Tolf <fredrik@dolda2000.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Licenses
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:54:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1168991684.11789.8.camel@pc7.dolda2000.com> (raw)

Hi List!

I was wondering -- is there a way to find out which of the licenses
in /usr/portage/licenses can be considered free software licenses
(without having to read and understand them)?

I'm trying to find out what packages I have installed that cannot be
considered free, and while it's easy to get a list of the licenses in
use, that in itself is pretty useless without knowing anything about the
licenses.

Btw., shouldn't portage have some kind of flag to at least warn if a
proprietary package is being pulled in through dependencies? I just
discovered that I have realplayer installed, which was pulled in by
mplayer.

Fredrik Tolf


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             reply	other threads:[~2007-01-17  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-16 23:54 Fredrik Tolf [this message]
2007-01-17  2:28 ` [gentoo-user] Licenses Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-01-18  2:09   ` Fredrik Tolf
2007-01-18 21:12 ` Avaricen
     [not found]   ` <45B00BAD.5070205@badapple.net>
2007-01-19  0:29     ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-01-19  2:38       ` kashani
2007-01-19  5:38         ` Steve Dibb
2007-01-19  9:02   ` Neil Bothwick
     [not found] ` <20070131155604.GA19336@galiza_ceive>
2007-01-31 17:14   ` Peter Lewis
2007-01-31 19:06     ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

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