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On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Rémi Cardona <remi@g.o> wrote: |
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> Le 28/12/2009 06:36, Vincent Launchbury a écrit : |
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>> 1) Not all of the licenses are completely accurate. For example, the |
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>> Linux kernels are listed as soley GPL-2, yet they contain blobs of |
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>> non-free firmware. |
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> Indeed, that's a very good point. And that's precisely why I was against |
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> ACCEPT_LICENSE to begin with. |
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> It's a good idea on paper, but it's just not feasible at a large scale |
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> (like portage) without a proper _team_ of devoted people sifting through |
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> code and license blobs to make it useful. I'm also pretty sure a couple |
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> lawyers would be needed as well. |
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I think we can simply follow debian and fedora's lead on this. They |
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have the lawyers, and being in the same bowl as them would be a good |
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idea if any problems ever crop up. One area where we're in a fishy |
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situation (distinct from debian/fedora) is our distribution of isos |
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and stages without the adjoining sources[1]. This situation always |
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makes me queasy. But I'm digressing here... |
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> Unless people dedicate time and effort, ACCEPT_LICENSE is useless. |
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Not entirely useless, and maintainers can, and should, spend time |
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making sure ACCEPT_LICENSE is complete and accurate. |
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> [snip] |
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> The rest of your points are indeed all valid as well. |
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> I can only encourage you to either work with individual developers to |
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> get ebuilds fixed (USE=bindist or whatever) or join our ranks to fix |
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> this yourself if you really want a "pure" Free Gentoo. |
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++ on this. We're a direct-to-users distro; we empower you and give |
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you the means to empower yourself. We probably have the easiest and |
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most direct way to get recruited (although it's strenous on the |
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recruiters side ;). |
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1. Actually, I was thinking we could take the result at the end of |
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src_prepare, tarball it up, do it for all the packages we have in the |
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iso, tar up all *those* and serve the end result up too. |
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~Nirbheek Chauhan |
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Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team |