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Fredrik Tolf wrote: |
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> Hi List! |
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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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> Fredrik Tolf |
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What do you mean you had realplayer pulled in by Mplayer? Also I'm |
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unaware of anyone really caring about licenses. If you're not very happy |
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with proprietary software, it would be wise to play with GnextSense |
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which is based upon free software with free software (only). |
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