On Friday 28 November 2003 01:19, Luke-Jr wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 27 November 2003 04:12 pm, Jason Wever 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?)
My main concern from this perspective is whether "*" should be available at all. > > 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... This shouldn't be a problem as long as users get a *loud* advance warning. Not only should it be in pkg_postinst but maybe also in the GWN? > 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. I think the osf/fsf licenses are the best default. From what I've seen working on a licensing patch, most of the base system is covered by a handful of licenses. I have 352 packages installed on my system and my ACCEPT_LICENCE is as follows: ACCEPT_LICENSE="Artistic MIT ZLIB BZIP2 FLEX CRACKLIB LGPL-2 NVIDIA LGPL-2.1 BSD fontconfig Info-ZIP X11 MSttfEULA PSF-2.2 freedist BAEKMUK Arphic free-noncomm sun-bcla-java-vm DB IPL-1 DIVX MOTIF XAnim public-domain FDL-1.1 wxWinLL-3 OpenSoftware as-is GPL-2" There's 31 licenses there. Installing all of gnome only requires PYTHON for pyxml MPL-1.1 and NPL-1.1 for mozilla and Ximian-logos for bug-buddy. I haven't looked into the licenses themselves so I don't know what would be "free" and "non-free" but it's definately not the maintenance nightmare people are worried about. Regards, Jason Stubbs -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
