Jon Portnoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 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.

[...]

Jon, 

That's such a vague statement we have in the social contract.  I've
always wondered what it meant specifically.

Matt
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