Gentoo Archives: gentoo-licenses

From: Alexander Berntsen <bernalex@g.o>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-licenses@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-licenses] New license group FSF-NONFREE?
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 19:32:11
Message-Id: 5536A5AC.1060100@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-licenses] New license group FSF-NONFREE? by Ulrich Mueller
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4 On 21/04/15 21:10, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
5 > Because this doesn't work. Without accepting everything in the
6 > FSF-APPROVED, OSI-APPROVED, and MISC-FREE groups (i.e.
7 > @FREE-SOFTWARE) you cannot install even the system set.
8 You can use package.accept_license (or whatever it is called) for this.
9
10 > Currently we are ignoring the issue of conflicting FSF and OSI
11 > decisions, which I believe is not a good solution.
12 My solution to this is largely to not care about OSI at all. But I think
13 if people do, they can handle this themselves.
14
15 (In a perfect universe etc. we'd have a more expressive language,
16 capable of set operations, but oh well.)
17
18 > A possible alternative would be that we reassess these licenses
19 > ourselves and modify the FREE-SOFTWARE group accordingly. For
20 > example (assuming that we would reject all three conflicting
21 > licenses): FREE-SOFTWARE @FSF-APPROVED @OSI-APPROVED @MISC-FREE
22 > -Artistic -NOSA -Watcom-1.0
23 I don't think OSI-APPROVED has anything to do in FREE-SOFTWARE. Open
24 Source Software is not the same as Free Software. The licence groups
25 are ill-named, at best.
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27 Alexander
28 bernalex@g.o
29 https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander
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