On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 16:19:04 +0000 Luke-Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > My $0.02 is that if this gets implemented, it should be put in so that > > the default behavior is like portage is now, > Since Portage as it is right now doesn't pay any attention to licenses, > its legality could be questioned (as with the games issue before?) Then if we have vendors who say "you absolutely must interactively accept our license agreement before using" or something similar, then we'd have no choice but to limit those licenses in this feature. And then there's the argument about whether this should be done for all licenses, but I don't want to start up a subthread. > > and if you choose to restrict > > yourself to only free software or other licensing scheme, you can make > > the necessary changes yourself. Otherwise you will have a ton of > > users asking "why can't i emerge package foo?", or filing bugs because > > of this, etc. > If Portage displays a clear enough message, there shouldn't be a problem > with this... Perhaps, if it's not prone to get lost in the shuffle like einfo's can. However, now I don't have to go through and set my make.conf to say "let me use everything", or "let me use just software of license foo". Maybe I'm just being stubborn, but I'd rather not have to set extra options that I don't currently have to, unless it's a situation like the case above" > > > >From a support perspective, if this gets implemented, I'm forwarding > >all > > of these questions, bugs, etc to the "free and only free" software > > folks. Please dont' take away one "freedom" for another. > As long as there is an option (editing the ACCEPT_LICENSES), there is no > > freedom being removed. So I guess it's a matter of opt in (only free licenses by default) vs out out (every license by default) depending on your perspective. I'd like to suggest that something like a forum poll be used to gauge which is the majority opinion, and go with that (if legality issues don't overrule this). -- Jason Wever Gentoo/Sparc Team Co-Lead
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