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Le 28/12/2009 06:36, Vincent Launchbury a écrit : |
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> Hi, |
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> I recently emailed the Gentoo PR team, voicing my concerns about the |
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> amount of non-free software within Gentoo. I got an interesting response |
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> from Sebastian Pipping, who said that while Gentoo is all about choice, |
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> including the choice to install non-free software, the project is |
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> interested in making it easy for people to run a 100% free system, |
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> should they choose that path. |
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Gentoo - like the rest of Free and Open Source Software - isn't about |
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choice, it's about empowering users. |
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Gentoo gives you tools and documentation to do whatever you wish. It |
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doesn't mean that we (Gentoo) _have_ to support it. |
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With that out of the way, moving on to the rest of the mail. |
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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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Unless people dedicate time and effort, ACCEPT_LICENSE is useless. |
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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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> This is my first post here, so I apologize if it's misdirected. I'm not |
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> sure if I'd really be able to help much on the technical side, but if |
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> this garners any cooperation, I'll gladly help out with anything I can. |
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> If someone could point me in the right direction, I'd be very grateful. |
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I'd say this is probably better suited for gentoo-project, but it's |
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probably ok to start here, to gauge interest :) |
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Best of luck |
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