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Although I think this is a very admirable goal, and something that would |
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be great, I would have to point out that many many desktop users would not |
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find this worthwhile as the nvidia kernel drivers are NOT OSS. :) Just a |
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minor point I thought worth mentioning |
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--Todd |
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On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: |
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> On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 14:14:07 -0400 (EDT) |
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> Todd Berman <tberman@×××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> > Honestly, giving the mplayer peoples preoccupation with the legality |
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> > of what they are doing, if they are providing the downloading, I have |
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> > no doubt it is completely legal. |
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> I have no doubt neither. The point is not legality but more a matter of |
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> personal choice. What I propose with this USE flag is a way to avoid |
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> ebuilds for free softwares to hardly depend on non-free software, in |
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> order to allow people who want it to build a 100% free system. |
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> But the problem is that it would be a lot of work: we should determine |
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> what are the free and the non-free licenses used in Gentoo (there are |
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> currently 208 license in portage!), to list free packages currently |
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> depending on non-free packages (this is the easiest part, doable with a |
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> few scripts), and to modify their ebuilds (doable by hand for a fews |
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> tens ebuilds, but not hundreds. And I have no idea of how many such |
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> ebuilds we would find). |
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> Thomas de Grenier de Latour. |
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