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I would like to point the community at the following bug |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/676248: |
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Bug 676248 - non-free licenses are accepted without user prompt |
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In summary the question is whether non-free licenses should be accepted |
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by default in Gentoo. today only licenses requiring EULA are not |
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accepted by default. So this is a good opportunity to discuss whether we |
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should deviate substantially from other distros like Debian. |
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My personal opinion is we should have a default accepting FSF and OSI |
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approved free/libre licenses and require acceptance for anything else |
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though package.license / ACCEPT_LICENSE. Since we have this model |
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already we don't need a separate repository like debian does for its |
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binary packages, so any change has relatively minor impact on our users |
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as long as it is presented properly and with a proper timeline. |
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Kristian Fiskerstrand |
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OpenPGP keyblock reachable at hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net |
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fpr:94CB AFDD 3034 5109 5618 35AA 0B7F 8B60 E3ED FAE3 |