On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 10:45:02AM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > Another iteration, due to an upcoming restructuring of the > linux-firmware package. Only change in v3 is the second line in the > package.license file which now contains the @BINARY-REDISTRIBUTABLE > group instead of individual licenses. > > Current plan is that this will go live on next Sunday, 2019-05-19. > > > Title: Change of ACCEPT_LICENSE default > Author: Ulrich Müller <u...@gentoo.org> > Posted: 2019-05-19 > 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, > 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 @BINARY-REDISTRIBUTABLE > > 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. Further > information about licenses can be found in the Gentoo Handbook [4] > and on the license groups wiki page [5]. > > [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 > [4] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Working/Portage#Licenses > [5] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/License_groups
lgtm -- Cheers, Aaron
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