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On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 01:09:45PM -0500, JD Horelick wrote: |
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> On 21 January 2012 13:01, . <ivdwut@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Hello there! |
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> > Is there a chance that Gentoo may become a free distro? |
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> > I'm so unhappy with the fact that there are some non-free packages in |
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> > the main tree. |
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> > The main goal of the GNU project was to replace the proprietary Unix system. |
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> > You are actually ruining this goal. |
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> > I'm also dissatisfied with the name of the distro. Linux is the kernel |
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> > not the whole system. |
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> > Cheers. |
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> To your first comment, I believe you can put: |
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> ACCEPT_LICENSES="@FSF-APPROVED" |
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> in your /etc/make.conf and with that, portage will only allow you to |
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> install software with a license approved by the FSF. |
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> As for your second comment.....No comment. :P |
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To answer your question: Gentoo Linux is a free distro. To be more precise, it |
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is a free meta-distribution. In fact, all of the packages in the tree are |
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free. |
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As to the name: 'Gentoo' is the name of the organization, 'Linux' is the |
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name of the operating system. 'Gentoo Linux' is a fairly sensible name for |
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a product. |
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Mr. Aaron W. Swenson |
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Gentoo Linux Developer |
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Email : titanofold@g.o |
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