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On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 01:37, Andrew Cowie wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 18:32, Jon Portnoy wrote: |
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> > Quick poll ... |
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> If ACCEPT_LICENCES is implemented with anything other than "any" as a |
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> default, then I can see very quickly needing to have a line in the |
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> Documentation (not to mention endless forum postings) saying: |
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> '...and then edit /etc/make.conf to say ACCEPT_LICENCES="*" ...' |
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Except that Gentoo CANNOT tell you that officially, since there are |
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licenses out there which would prohibit it. We could allow all licenses |
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EXCEPT the prohibited ones (such as id Games) by default, but NOWHERE |
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would you EVER find Gentoo officially telling people to put |
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ACCEPT_LICENSES="*" because that would put us in the same legal boat we |
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were in before and make us look like a bunch of selfish jerks who don't |
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play well with the community. Honestly, we need to do soemthing about |
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this now when it isn't a big problem so that further down the orad we |
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won't get bitten by legal actions. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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Games Team |
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