Re: [gentoo-dev] No XFree86 w/ new license

[CJ Kucera]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 03:56:10PM +0100, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> We also sell livecd's. Further we have mirrors that distribute xfree and
> iso's that include xfree. As X is a quite necessary package we also
> cannot really remove it from the GRP package list either. In short, we
> have big problems with this too, although I agree that we are in a
> better position than binary distributions.

Yeah, I figured that livecds and GRP packages would have to stay at
the 4.3 version.  But I'm still a bit hazy on what would prevent a
simple ebuild from living in Portage's tree.  It seems to me that,
among the 300+ licenses which *are* acceptable in Portage, this new
one couldn't be the "worst" of them.  Wasn't there some work being
done to provide an "ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES" var or something?  So
someone not wanting to deal with the extra requirements in the
new XFree license wouldn't have to worry about having it installed.

-CJ

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