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On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 10:11:04AM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> As the Council has decided in its 20190210 meeting, we are about to |
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> change the ACCEPT_LICENSE default in the base profile (pending final |
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> acknowledgement from RelEng). |
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> Please review the corresponding news item included below. |
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> Title: Change of ACCEPT_LICENSE default |
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> Author: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> |
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> Posted: 2019-04-XX |
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> Revision: 1 |
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> News-Item-Format: 2.0 |
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> The default set of accepted licenses has been changed [1,2] to: |
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> ACCEPT_LICENSE="-* @FREE" |
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> This means that by default only free software and documentation |
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> will be installable. The "FREE" license group is defined in the |
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> profiles/license_groups file in the Gentoo repository. It contains |
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> licenses that are explicitly approved by the Free Software Foundation |
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> or by the Open Source Initiative, or that follow the Free Software |
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> Definition. |
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It would probably read better as: |
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"It contains licenses that are explicitly approved by the Free Software |
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Foundation, the Open Source Initiative, or that follow the Free Software |
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Definition." |
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> The system wide default for the accepted licenses is controlled by |
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> the ACCEPT_LICENSE variable in /etc/portage/make.conf, or it can be |
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> specified on a per-package basis in /etc/portage/package.license. |
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> For example, to allow the app-arch/unrar and sys-kernel/linux-firmware |
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> packages to be installed, the following lines would have to be added |
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> to /etc/portage/package.license: |
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> app-arch/unrar unRAR |
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> sys-kernel/linux-firmware linux-firmware no-source-code |
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> If you want to revert to the previous default, add the following line |
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> to /etc/portage/make.conf: |
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> ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" |
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> This will permit all licenses, except End User License Agreements that |
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> require reading and signing an acceptance agreement. Note that this |
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> will also accept non-free software and documentation. |
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> See GLEP 23 [3] as well as the make.conf(5) and portage(5) man pages |
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> for the detailed syntax of the ACCEPT_LICENSE variable. |
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> [1] https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20190210-summary.txt |
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> [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/676248 |
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> [3] https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0023.html |
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Cheers, |
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Aaron |
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