Re: [gentoo-user] Licenses

["Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@zlin.dk>]

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On Wednesday 17 January 2007 00:54, Fredrik Tolf wrote:
> 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.

I don't know of a list which is available now but glep 23 [1] does address 
this issue with license groups. There are a number of discussions about this 
glep in the archives of the gentoo-dev mailing list and a number of bugs 
related to it. I suppose you could try to ask on one of those bugs, irc or 
gentoo-dev@ if anyone has a list of what will become the OSI-APPROVED or the 
FSF-APPROVED license group.

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0023.html

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Bo Andresen

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