From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H7dqZ-0006v8-CZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:26:55 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0IKNo1a024430; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:23:50 GMT Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.229]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0IKBgJ8027969 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:11:58 GMT Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i28so261472wra for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:11:58 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=j6xxGMcVAJ5HMveSJkpyBWHSVQYBjmhXMzwqpfV75wIvitcMwWkxEzTkzPZddMifPIVJCfkq99nJiqStOgk0vMgn/gq6kljUEmnJkQTqdj7IsIAetIfS3D5G1wMeDecgVUeOfylnrBpFOW8Zu1zQja/v4UgUd74n2F+h/2MmZVU= Received: by 10.90.65.11 with SMTP id n11mr1867808aga.1169151118129; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:11:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.199? ( [193.219.222.134]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 4sm1452007aga.2007.01.18.12.11.55; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:11:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <45AFE2A3.8080907@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:12:03 +0000 From: Avaricen User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070115) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Licenses References: <1168991684.11789.8.camel@pc7.dolda2000.com> In-Reply-To: <1168991684.11789.8.camel@pc7.dolda2000.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a30e2701-4a52-4258-858c-37516909d957 X-Archives-Hash: 7a021f8f1ded57c03820d5b84b29c0b7 Fredrik Tolf wrote: > 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 > > What do you mean you had realplayer pulled in by Mplayer? Also I'm unaware of anyone really caring about licenses. If you're not very happy with proprietary software, it would be wise to play with GnextSense which is based upon free software with free software (only). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list