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>>>>> On Wed, 31 Jul 2013, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: |
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> Just to bring the list up to speed -- in a conversation in #gentoo-dev |
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> I proposed that what we do, instead of setting the default in |
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> make.globals, is to leave that default as-is and to add in the stage3 |
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> make.conf files the lines: |
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> # [some comment that says what this is and to look in the handbook ] |
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> ACCEPT_LICENSE="-* @FREE" |
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> # firmware in the linux kernel needs additional licenses, so add |
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> # them by default. Please remove if you do not wish to accept. |
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> ACCEPT_LICENSE+="freedist" |
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I don't like to enable freedist globally for all packages (and if it's |
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only because I fear that it would invite devs to abuse "freedist" in |
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the same way as they abused "as-is"). So either this should be moved |
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to package.license, or we should create an extra license label that is |
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used exclusively for kernel firmware. |
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freedist is a really bad approximation for the complicated situation |
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anyway. It is known that some of the firmware is not redistributable |
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at all. |
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Ulrich |
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