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From: JD Horelick <jdhore1@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Free Gentoo
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:10:50
Message-Id: CAFhp8z4M0m51+OwqdjcLxEoHCV8qrzSVWt5=G6M7qv77oNhAog@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Free Gentoo by "."
1 On 21 January 2012 13:01, . <ivdwut@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > Hello there!
3 >
4 > Is there a chance that Gentoo may become a free distro?
5 >
6 > I'm so unhappy with the fact that there are some non-free packages in
7 > the main tree.
8 > The main goal of the GNU project was to replace the proprietary Unix system.
9 > You are actually ruining this goal.
10 >
11 > I'm also dissatisfied with the name of the distro. Linux is the kernel
12 > not the whole system.
13 >
14 >
15 > Cheers.
16 >
17
18 To your first comment, I believe you can put:
19
20 ACCEPT_LICENSES="@FSF-APPROVED"
21
22 in your /etc/make.conf and with that, portage will only allow you to
23 install software with a license approved by the FSF.
24
25 As for your second comment.....No comment. :P

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Free Gentoo Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Free Gentoo "Mr. Aaron W. Swenson" <titanofold@g.o>