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Am Donnerstag 25 Juli 2013, 20:31:19 schrieb hasufell: |
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> Gentoo has a social contract [1] which makes a lot of noise about free |
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> software. |
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> However our default settings allow to use almost any kind of non-free |
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> license such as "all-rights-reserved". |
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> While I see nothing wrong with gentoo providing proprietary stuff (and |
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> I have created a lot of such games ebuilds), I think according to our |
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> philsophy and social contract we should make people aware of free |
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> software and because of that also change the default to: |
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> ACCEPT_LICENSE="@FREE" |
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> This is only about the _default_. |
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The only effect of this new _default_ will be that people |
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1) start complaining |
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2) read up somewhere in the forums |
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3) set ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" without further thinking. |
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This is NOT what we want. |
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In my opinion we should set the pre-defined license filter as tolerant as |
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possible. Anyone who wants to narrow it down should do it himself. |
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Andreas K. Huettel |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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kde, sci, arm, tex, printing |
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