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On Friday 28 November 2003 01:19, Luke-Jr wrote: |
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> On Thursday 27 November 2003 04:12 pm, Jason Wever wrote: |
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> > My $0.02 is that if this gets implemented, it should be put in so that |
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> > the default behavior is like portage is now, |
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> Since Portage as it is right now doesn't pay any attention to licenses, its |
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> legality could be questioned (as with the games issue before?) |
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My main concern from this perspective is whether "*" should be available at |
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all. |
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> > and if you choose to restrict |
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> > yourself to only free software or other licensing scheme, you can make |
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> > the necessary changes yourself. Otherwise you will have a ton of users |
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> > asking "why can't i emerge package foo?", or filing bugs because of this, |
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> > etc. |
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> If Portage displays a clear enough message, there shouldn't be a problem |
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> with this... |
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This shouldn't be a problem as long as users get a *loud* advance warning. Not |
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only should it be in pkg_postinst but maybe also in the GWN? |
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> From a support perspective, if this gets implemented, I'm forwarding all |
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> > of these questions, bugs, etc to the "free and only free" software folks. |
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> > Please dont' take away one "freedom" for another. |
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> As long as there is an option (editing the ACCEPT_LICENSES), there is no |
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> freedom being removed. |
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I think the osf/fsf licenses are the best default. From what I've seen working |
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on a licensing patch, most of the base system is covered by a handful of |
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licenses. I have 352 packages installed on my system and my ACCEPT_LICENCE is |
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as follows: |
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ACCEPT_LICENSE="Artistic MIT ZLIB BZIP2 FLEX CRACKLIB LGPL-2 NVIDIA LGPL-2.1 |
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BSD fontconfig Info-ZIP X11 MSttfEULA PSF-2.2 freedist BAEKMUK Arphic |
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free-noncomm sun-bcla-java-vm DB IPL-1 DIVX MOTIF XAnim public-domain FDL-1.1 |
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wxWinLL-3 OpenSoftware as-is GPL-2" |
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There's 31 licenses there. Installing all of gnome only requires PYTHON for |
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pyxml MPL-1.1 and NPL-1.1 for mozilla and Ximian-logos for bug-buddy. I |
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haven't looked into the licenses themselves so I don't know what would be |
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"free" and "non-free" but it's definately not the maintenance nightmare |
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people are worried about. |
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Regards, |
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Jason Stubbs |
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