On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 02:54:39AM -0800, Erik Swanson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 02:33, donnie berkholz wrote: > > I think we should accept all the licenses by default except the ones for > > which the ACCEPT_LICENSE variable originally existed (the id games ones), > > since users must be forced to read and agree to those. This would keep the > > change seamless for the user unless said user wishes to change things. > > As a user, I'd prefer if only OSI-approved licenses were accepted by > default. This also seems like it'd be most in keeping with the Gentoo > Social Contract. >
The social contract states that Gentoo Linux will never _depend_ on nonfree software. However, we still provide it. If we moved over to a Debian-esque "if you want nonfree software, you need to change settings" it would irritate a decently large number of people. (And before anyone accuses me of being an anti-FSF type, my license plate is 'GNU') -- Jon Portnoy avenj/irc.freenode.net -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
