On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 10:11:04AM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > Hello, > > As the Council has decided in its 20190210 meeting, we are about to > change the ACCEPT_LICENSE default in the base profile (pending final > acknowledgement from RelEng). > > Please review the corresponding news item included below. > > > Title: Change of ACCEPT_LICENSE default > Author: Ulrich Mueller <[email protected]> > Posted: 2019-04-XX > Revision: 1 > News-Item-Format: 2.0 > > The default set of accepted licenses has been changed [1,2] to: > > ACCEPT_LICENSE="-* @FREE" > > This means that by default only free software and documentation > will be installable. The "FREE" license group is defined in the > profiles/license_groups file in the Gentoo repository. It contains > licenses that are explicitly approved by the Free Software Foundation > or by the Open Source Initiative, or that follow the Free Software > Definition. >
It would probably read better as: "It contains licenses that are explicitly approved by the Free Software Foundation, the Open Source Initiative, or that follow the Free Software Definition." > The system wide default for the accepted licenses is controlled by > the ACCEPT_LICENSE variable in /etc/portage/make.conf, or it can be > specified on a per-package basis in /etc/portage/package.license. > > For example, to allow the app-arch/unrar and sys-kernel/linux-firmware > packages to be installed, the following lines would have to be added > to /etc/portage/package.license: > > app-arch/unrar unRAR > sys-kernel/linux-firmware linux-firmware no-source-code > > If you want to revert to the previous default, add the following line > to /etc/portage/make.conf: > > ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" > > This will permit all licenses, except End User License Agreements that > require reading and signing an acceptance agreement. Note that this > will also accept non-free software and documentation. > > See GLEP 23 [3] as well as the make.conf(5) and portage(5) man pages > for the detailed syntax of the ACCEPT_LICENSE variable. > > [1] https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20190210-summary.txt > [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/676248 > [3] https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0023.html -- Cheers, Aaron
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