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From: Thomas de Grenier de Latour <degrenier@×××××××××××.fr>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] avifile ebuild requires divx4linux and win32codecs on x86
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 18:53:52
Message-Id: 20030424205355.2c3a1017.degrenier@easyconnect.fr
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] avifile ebuild requires divx4linux and win32codecs on x86 by Todd Berman
1 On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 14:14:07 -0400 (EDT)
2 Todd Berman <tberman@×××××××××.org> wrote:
3
4 >
5 > Honestly, giving the mplayer peoples preoccupation with the legality
6 > of what they are doing, if they are providing the downloading, I have
7 > no doubt it is completely legal.
8 >
9
10 I have no doubt neither. The point is not legality but more a matter of
11 personal choice. What I propose with this USE flag is a way to avoid
12 ebuilds for free softwares to hardly depend on non-free software, in
13 order to allow people who want it to build a 100% free system.
14
15 But the problem is that it would be a lot of work: we should determine
16 what are the free and the non-free licenses used in Gentoo (there are
17 currently 208 license in portage!), to list free packages currently
18 depending on non-free packages (this is the easiest part, doable with a
19 few scripts), and to modify their ebuilds (doable by hand for a fews
20 tens ebuilds, but not hundreds. And I have no idea of how many such
21 ebuilds we would find).
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23
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25 Thomas de Grenier de Latour.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] avifile ebuild requires divx4linux and win32codecs on x86 Todd Berman <tberman@×××××××××.org>