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As you certainly have noticed, the ACCEPT_LICENSE change was reverted |
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because of concerns about user experience. In the meantime, Whissi has |
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written a migration tool app-portage/elicense. |
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We have updated the news item to reflect this, see the paragraph |
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inserted after the package.license examples. There are no other changes. |
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This will be posted as a new news item (and the previous one removed) |
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since the update requires a re-read. |
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Please review. |
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Title: Change of ACCEPT_LICENSE default |
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Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm@g.o> |
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Author: Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@g.o> |
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Posted: 2019-05-XX |
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Revision: 2 |
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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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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 @BINARY-REDISTRIBUTABLE |
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A migration tool app-portage/elicense is available. It scans installed |
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packages for licenses that are no longer accepted, and generates a list |
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in the same format as the package.license file. See elicense's README |
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for further details. |
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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. Further |
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information about licenses can be found in the Gentoo Handbook [4] |
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and on the license groups wiki page [5]. |
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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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[4] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Working/Portage#Licenses |
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[5] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/License_groups |
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