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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Cc: licenses@g.o, Alexander Berntsen <alexander@××××××.net>
Subject: [gentoo-project] changing the default of ACCEPT_LICENSE in portage
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 18:33:09
Message-Id: 51F16EF7.30606@gentoo.org
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4 Gentoo has a social contract [1] which makes a lot of noise about free
5 software.
6 However our default settings allow to use almost any kind of non-free
7 license such as "all-rights-reserved".
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9 While I see nothing wrong with gentoo providing proprietary stuff (and
10 I have created a lot of such games ebuilds), I think according to our
11 philsophy and social contract we should make people aware of free
12 software and because of that also change the default to:
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14 ACCEPT_LICENSE="@FREE"
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16 This is only about the _default_.
17 We will have to change the handbook at "1.d. Licenses" [2] and might
18 also make a news item.
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21 [1] http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/contract.xml
22 [2]
23 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?full=1#book_part2_chap1
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