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On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 16:19:04 +0000 |
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Luke-Jr <luke-jr@g.o> 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, |
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> its legality could be questioned (as with the games issue before?) |
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Then if we have vendors who say "you absolutely must interactively accept |
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our license agreement before using" or something similar, then we'd have |
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no choice but to limit those licenses in this feature. |
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And then there's the argument about whether this should be done for all |
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licenses, but I don't want to start up a subthread. |
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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 |
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> > users asking "why can't i emerge package foo?", or filing bugs because |
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> > of this, 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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Perhaps, if it's not prone to get lost in the shuffle like einfo's can. |
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However, now I don't have to go through and set my make.conf to say |
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"let me use everything", or "let me use just software of license foo". |
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Maybe I'm just being stubborn, but I'd rather not have to set extra |
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options that I don't currently have to, unless it's a situation like the |
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case above" |
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> > |
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> >From a support perspective, if this gets implemented, I'm forwarding |
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> >all |
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> > of these questions, bugs, etc to the "free and only free" software |
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> > folks. 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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So I guess it's a matter of opt in (only free licenses by default) vs out |
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out (every license by default) depending on your perspective. I'd like to |
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suggest that something like a forum poll be used to gauge which is the |
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majority opinion, and go with that (if legality issues don't overrule |
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this). |
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Jason Wever |
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Gentoo/Sparc Team Co-Lead |
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