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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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Erik Swanson <gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.name> |
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