Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Licenses
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:14:16
Message-Id: 200701311306.25110.bss03@volumehost.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Licenses by Peter Lewis
1 On Wednesday 31 January 2007 11:14, Peter Lewis <prlewis@×××××××××××.org>
2 wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Licenses':
3 > On 00:54 Wed 17 Jan , Fredrik Tolf wrote:
4 > > Btw., shouldn't portage have some kind of flag to at least warn if a
5 > > proprietary package is being pulled in through dependencies?
6 >
7 > Have you taken a look at GLEP 23?
8
9 Yeah. It had already been proposed when I installed Gentoo the first time:
10 in 2004.
11
12 Don't hold your breath.
13
14 > I for one hope that this gets
15 > implemented pretty soon. :-)
16
17 There does appear to have been some forward progress, which is good. It
18 languished for over two years without progress at one point.
19
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