On Wednesday 17 January 2007 00:54, Fredrik Tolf wrote: > I was wondering -- is there a way to find out which of the licenses > in /usr/portage/licenses can be considered free software licenses > (without having to read and understand them)? > > I'm trying to find out what packages I have installed that cannot be > considered free, and while it's easy to get a list of the licenses in > use, that in itself is pretty useless without knowing anything about the > licenses. > > Btw., shouldn't portage have some kind of flag to at least warn if a > proprietary package is being pulled in through dependencies? I just > discovered that I have realplayer installed, which was pulled in by > mplayer.
I don't know of a list which is available now but glep 23 [1] does address this issue with license groups. There are a number of discussions about this glep in the archives of the gentoo-dev mailing list and a number of bugs related to it. I suppose you could try to ask on one of those bugs, irc or gentoo-dev@ if anyone has a list of what will become the OSI-APPROVED or the FSF-APPROVED license group. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0023.html -- Bo Andresen
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