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On Friday 21 November 2003 19:07, Erik Swanson wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 09:32, Jon Portnoy wrote: |
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> > The social contract states that Gentoo Linux will never _depend_ on |
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> > nonfree software. However, we still provide it. If we moved over to a |
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> > Debian-esque "if you want nonfree software, you need to change settings" |
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> > it would irritate a decently large number of people. |
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> My suggestion of a conservative default was under the assumption that it |
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> would be trivial to accept additional licenses. An interactive "y" after |
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> being shown the license, for example. I agree that a more liberal |
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> default would be in order if it required substantial effort (such as |
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> editing make.conf) to accept additional licenses. |
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I don't want interactive "y"'s as in that case I cannot redirect my output to |
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a logfile anymore. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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