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From: Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] What should the default acceptable licenses be?
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 18:58:20
Message-Id: 417625d4-1741-254f-6417-a29c8e8e4bc0@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] What should the default acceptable licenses be? by Kristian Fiskerstrand
1 On 1/29/19 7:41 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
2 > On 1/29/19 7:27 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
3 >> Not depending on non-free software sounds nice in principle until you
4 >> start talking about all those little things that make physical
5 >> hardware actually work. If it were a practical option I'd be all for
6 >> it. Otherwise this is a choice that really only exists on paper.
7 >
8 > This is a matter of documentation in the handbook, though.
9 >
10 > e.g on my laptop (all of my systems have similar setups already) which
11 > has ACCEPT_LICENSE="-* @FREE -AGPL-3 -AGPL-3+ freedist ", the exception
12 > list still only are has
13 > # cat /etc/portage/package.license/*|wc -l
14 > 21
15 > ... of which 4 entries are related to AGPL and as such wouldn't really
16 > be relevant for the proposed change. and that is a full desktop (laptop)
17
18 ...and actually has a bit of cruft due to experimenting with
19 hardware/drivers and apps I didn't ultimately end up using...
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Re: [gentoo-project] What should the default acceptable licenses be? Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@g.o>