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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] changing the default of ACCEPT_LICENSE in portage
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 18:42:13
Message-Id: 51F1717D.1090301@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] changing the default of ACCEPT_LICENSE in portage by Matthew Thode
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4 On 07/25/2013 08:41 PM, Matthew Thode wrote:
5 > On 07/25/2013 01:31 PM, hasufell wrote:
6 >> Gentoo has a social contract [1] which makes a lot of noise about
7 >> free software. However our default settings allow to use almost
8 >> any kind of non-free license such as "all-rights-reserved".
9 >>
10 >> While I see nothing wrong with gentoo providing proprietary stuff
11 >> (and I have created a lot of such games ebuilds), I think
12 >> according to our philsophy and social contract we should make
13 >> people aware of free software and because of that also change the
14 >> default to:
15 >>
16 >> ACCEPT_LICENSE="@FREE"
17 >>
18 >> This is only about the _default_. We will have to change the
19 >> handbook at "1.d. Licenses" [2] and might also make a news item.
20 >>
21 >>
22 > This is what I thought the default license group already was, I'm
23 > all for it :D
24 >
25
26 The default is currently:
27
28 ACCEPT_LICENSE:"* -@EULA"
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30 in /usr/share/portage/config/make.globals
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[gentoo-project] Re: changing the default of ACCEPT_LICENSE in portage "Steven J. Long" <slong@××××××××××××××××××.uk>