Le 28/12/2009 06:36, Vincent Launchbury a écrit : > Hi, > > I recently emailed the Gentoo PR team, voicing my concerns about the > amount of non-free software within Gentoo. I got an interesting response > from Sebastian Pipping, who said that while Gentoo is all about choice, > including the choice to install non-free software, the project is > interested in making it easy for people to run a 100% free system, > should they choose that path.
Gentoo - like the rest of Free and Open Source Software - isn't about choice, it's about empowering users. Gentoo gives you tools and documentation to do whatever you wish. It doesn't mean that we (Gentoo) _have_ to support it. With that out of the way, moving on to the rest of the mail. > 1) Not all of the licenses are completely accurate. For example, the > Linux kernels are listed as soley GPL-2, yet they contain blobs of > non-free firmware. Indeed, that's a very good point. And that's precisely why I was against ACCEPT_LICENSE to begin with. It's a good idea on paper, but it's just not feasible at a large scale (like portage) without a proper _team_ of devoted people sifting through code and license blobs to make it useful. I'm also pretty sure a couple lawyers would be needed as well. Unless people dedicate time and effort, ACCEPT_LICENSE is useless. [snip] The rest of your points are indeed all valid as well. I can only encourage you to either work with individual developers to get ebuilds fixed (USE=bindist or whatever) or join our ranks to fix this yourself if you really want a "pure" Free Gentoo. > This is my first post here, so I apologize if it's misdirected. I'm not > sure if I'd really be able to help much on the technical side, but if > this garners any cooperation, I'll gladly help out with anything I can. > If someone could point me in the right direction, I'd be very grateful. I'd say this is probably better suited for gentoo-project, but it's probably ok to start here, to gauge interest :) Best of luck Rémi
