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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] changing the default of ACCEPT_LICENSE in portage
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 18:58:33
Message-Id: 51F17552.9030503@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] changing the default of ACCEPT_LICENSE in portage by Pacho Ramos
1 On 07/25/2013 08:56 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
2 > El jue, 25-07-2013 a las 20:31 +0200, hasufell escribió:
3 >> Gentoo has a social contract [1] which makes a lot of noise about free
4 >> software.
5 >> However our default settings allow to use almost any kind of non-free
6 >> license such as "all-rights-reserved".
7 >
8 > I disagree because I don't think "promoting" free software should imply
9 > we shouldn't allow non-free software to be installed easily :/
10 >
11 >
12
13 We do allow non-free software to be installed easily.
14
15 If you think that adding a line such as
16 ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
17
18 into make.conf is difficult, then I am sorry about your expecations of
19 the average gentoo user.