Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...]
> massive amount of licenses, I suggest having reasonable defaults for > ACCEPT_LICENSES is make.defaults. > > The reason for this is that the free vs non-free questioning comes up on -user > every month or two. Each time, the answer is invariably "you wont find what > you're looking for here". I would prefer to be able to say, "sure, Gentoo can > do that". And it seems if the above were implemented it would be as easy as > ACCEPT_LICENSES="-* GPL-1 GPL-2 LGPL-2 LGPL-2.1". (I'm not so familiar with > which licenses but I'm sure someone that cares would be). > > As a added benefit, using something similar to the above would ensure that a > stage3 tarball would never be 'polluted'. I'm sure there would be other > benefits, too. [...] Personally, I am only interested in supporting and using free software, so... The best solution is just to remove support for anything non-free in portage and to also remove any non-free software from our mirrors. Let some other external project step up to the plate and provide a non-free overlay if they wish. This would put us in a position to be the only GNU/Linux distribution out there which is truly Free according to GNU standards (AFAIK). Wouldn't that be a great selling point? Failing that, your idea is a good one, and definitely worth implementing. I would like to spend some time to get that feature added to portage (as a patch, since I'm not a portage developer). I think it will require others to sort through the large list of licenses in /usr/portage/licenses and decide what can be considered Free Software. Matt -- Matthew Kennedy Gentoo Linux Developer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
