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>>>>> On Wed, 1 Jan 2014, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 8:51 PM, Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> |
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>> I think a better solution here, since these files are *installed*, |
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>> is to introduce a new local flag (e.g. unfreeblobs) for the kernel |
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>> that would append to LICENSE by the mechanism described below. |
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> Well, sure, any USE flag that controls the installation of the blobs |
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> should append the appropriate string to LICENSE. However, that is a |
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> separate (and also important) issue. |
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The kernel does this already. kernel-2.eclass (basically) assigns: |
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LICENSE="GPL-2 !deblob? ( freedist )" |
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So with USE=deblob you get GPL-2 because only GPL-2 files will be |
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installed on your system. (Of course, "freedist" is only a crude |
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approximation of the actual firmware licenses. But this is a separate |
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issue, see https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318841#c9). |
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> Has anybody tested whether ACCEPT_LICENSE handles USE conditionals |
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> correctly? If it is in PMS and it doesn't than that would be a |
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> Portage bug, but we should probably be aware of what it does before |
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> setting it all over the tree. |
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Ack. It is specified in GLEP 23 and PMS, and Portage does handle it |
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correctly. |
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Ulrich |
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