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From: Alexander Berntsen <bernalex@g.o>
To: gentoo-licenses@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-licenses] New license group FSF-NONFREE?
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 18:27:30
Message-Id: 55369683.7030607@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-licenses] New license group FSF-NONFREE? by Ulrich Mueller
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4 On 21/04/15 20:20, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
5 > Hi, There are several licenses in @OSI-APPROVED that the FSF
6 > explicitly lists as nonfree, namely Artistic, NOSA, and
7 > Watcom-1.0.
8 >
9 > I wonder if we should introduce an FSF-NONFREE group which would
10 > contain either all licenses from [1], or only the conflicting
11 > ones. Then users could set their ACCEPT_LICENSES variable to e.g.
12 > "-* @FREE -@FSF-NONFREE" in order to avoid software released under
13 > such licenses.
14 wat.
15
16 1. I don't understand the usecase. Why not just do "-* @FSF-APPROVED
17 @FREE-DOCUMENTS" if you care explicitly about FSF-approval -- or "-*
18 @FSF-APPROVED @OSI-APPROVED @FREE-DOCUMENTS"
19
20 2. I think this is a needless layer of clunkyness.
21
22 3. I think the name is very weird.
23
24 4. I think making a group based on this criteria is really weird in
25 the first place.
26
27
28 - -1 from me.
29 - --
30 Alexander
31 bernalex@g.o
32 https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander
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Re: [gentoo-licenses] New license group FSF-NONFREE? Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>