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From: Vincent Launchbury <vincent@×××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Non-free software in Gentoo
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:25:38
Message-Id: 4B399279.2030709@doublecreations.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Non-free software in Gentoo by "Rémi Cardona"
1 Rémi Cardona wrote:
2 > Unless people dedicate time and effort, ACCEPT_LICENSE is useless.
3
4 Well, I think an incomplete tool is better than no tool at all. Even
5 though it's far from perfect, I still found it very useful to create a
6 free system. I'm certainly interested in helping to improve it.
7
8 > I'd say this is probably better suited for gentoo-project, but it's
9 > probably ok to start here, to gauge interest :)
10
11 Thanks, I'll subscribe to gentoo-project also.
12
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14 Jeremy Olexa wrote:
15 > File bugs mate. Licensing is not exactly clear to all users or devs. As
16 > can be seen here[1] for dos2unix. It sounds like you care in this area,
17 > so get involved.
18
19 That looks like a great starting point, thanks. The bug you mentioned
20 has been fixed already!
21
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23 Robin H. Johnson wrote:
24 > The COPYRIGHT file in dos2unix is actually a 2-clause BSD license. I've
25 > updated the ebuild suitably.
26
27 Thanks, much appreciated.
28
29 > File a bug with some ebuilds.
30
31 It looks like somebody already has. See
32 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=266157. I tested the latest
33 ebuild, and it worked fine (see comment #59.) What would have to be done
34 to get it in the main tree?
35
36 > A profile is not the answer here.
37 > An optional DEP block || ( media-fonts/corefonts ... ) where the other
38 > item does resolve using ACCEPT_LICENSES is what should be used.
39
40 I'll have to read through the devmanual, thanks for the pointer.
41
42 > In your case, I propose that we add one or more stacked groups, with an
43 > initial content as such...
44
45 I'll start working on expanding LIBRE-FREE-1 then. I assume a bug report
46 would be the correct place to suggest this when I've made a decent
47 start?

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Non-free software in Gentoo Peter Volkov <pva@g.o>