On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 09:32, Jon Portnoy wrote:
> 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.

My suggestion of a conservative default was under the assumption that it
would be trivial to accept additional licenses. An interactive "y" after
being shown the license, for example. I agree that a more liberal
default would be in order if it required substantial effort (such as
editing make.conf) to accept additional licenses.

-- 
Erik Swanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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