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On Wednesday 17 January 2007 00:54, Fredrik Tolf wrote: |
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> I was wondering -- is there a way to find out which of the licenses |
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> in /usr/portage/licenses can be considered free software licenses |
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> (without having to read and understand them)? |
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> I'm trying to find out what packages I have installed that cannot be |
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> considered free, and while it's easy to get a list of the licenses in |
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> use, that in itself is pretty useless without knowing anything about the |
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> licenses. |
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> Btw., shouldn't portage have some kind of flag to at least warn if a |
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> proprietary package is being pulled in through dependencies? I just |
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> discovered that I have realplayer installed, which was pulled in by |
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> mplayer. |
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I don't know of a list which is available now but glep 23 [1] does address |
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this issue with license groups. There are a number of discussions about this |
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glep in the archives of the gentoo-dev mailing list and a number of bugs |
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related to it. I suppose you could try to ask on one of those bugs, irc or |
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gentoo-dev@ if anyone has a list of what will become the OSI-APPROVED or the |
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FSF-APPROVED license group. |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0023.html |
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Bo Andresen |
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