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On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:55 AM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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>>>>>> On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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>> that might disallow it for binaries, but it doesnt disallow it from |
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>> being used in ebuilds. same situation as binary kernel drivers -- |
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>> make it the end user's problem. |
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> Why should we impose such trouble on our users, when there's a (IMHO |
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> superior) replacement? Build gnuplot with USE="cairo" and you can get |
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> PDF output with the "pdfcairo" terminal. Even with proper utf-8 |
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> support, which was always broken with pdflib. |
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+1 to both - if a free alternative works then we should always prefer |
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it. However, at worst linking license issues should just force us to |
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set RESTRICT="bindist" or the like (and mirror as well if we can't |
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distribute the source). As long as users don't redistribute software |
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they don't need to worry about licenses if the person sending it to |
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them had the license to distribute it in the first place. |
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Rich |