Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Licenses
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:08:48
Message-Id: 20070119090243.506a681d@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Licenses by Avaricen
1 On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:12:03 +0000, Avaricen wrote:
2
3 > > Btw., shouldn't portage have some kind of flag to at least warn if a
4 > > proprietary package is being pulled in through dependencies?
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7 It will have, this has been discussed on the dev list.
8
9 > I just
10 > > discovered that I have realplayer installed, which was pulled in by
11 > > mplayer.
12
13 > What do you mean you had realplayer pulled in by Mplayer?
14
15 emerge mplayer with the real USE flag and it installs realplayer as a
16 dependency.
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18 > Also I'm unaware of anyone really caring about licenses.
19
20 Really? How about RMS? Closer to home, try Duncan on gentoo-amd64!
21 A lot of people care about the agreements they are required to make when
22 using software.
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26 Neil Bothwick
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28 I'm in shape ... Rounds a shape isn't it?

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