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On 07/25/2013 01:31 PM, hasufell wrote: |
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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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> We will have to change the handbook at "1.d. Licenses" [2] and might |
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> also make a news item. |
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This is what I thought the default license group already was, I'm all |
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for it :D |
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-- Matthew Thode (prometheanfire) |