Le Fri, 28 Nov 2003 03:35:27 +0000
Luke-Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> �crivait :
> And if there's aliases for all free software and any license, there's
> hardly much to do... I don't have a problem editing my make.conf to
> include all the other free licenses in addition to the minimal ones.
> It would take a minute at most.
Humm, not so sure.
ls /usr/portage/licenses | wc -l
301
I think we need some categories, so each user can choose from predefined
sets.
I propose : FSF_APPROVED_GPL_COMPAT, FSF_APPROVED_NOT_GPL_COMPAT,
OSI_APPROVED, GENTOO_APPROVED_FREE_SOFTWARE, NON_FREE,
NON_FREE_ASK_INTERACTIVE
I started to fill the first 2.
FSF_APPROVED_GPL_COMPAT="LGPL-2.1 LGPL-2 GPL-1 GPL-2 BSD MIT X11 as-is
public-domain ZLIB W3C Sleepycat OPENLDAP PYTHON Clarified-Artistic
Artistic-2 ZPL vim"
FSF_APPROVED_NOT_GPL_COMPAT="Academic OpenSoftware Apache-1.1 IPL
CPL-1.0 MPL SPL NPL-1 SISSL QPL-1.0 FTL PHP PLAN9 Apple"
The FSF_APPROVED_NOT_GPL_COMPAT certainly needs some further check, as
(for example) I'm confused by the many Sun's licenses.
I noticed that IBM and IPL licenses seems to be the same (name and
version). I used IPL as for searching with my tools, IBM confuse with
IBM-ILNWP, a clearly non-free license.
With these variables, I also checked all the ebuilds.
Out of 11932 ebuild, 9584 are GPL_COMPAT, roughly 80%
234 are GPL_INCOMPAT, that makes 9% of the remaining ebuilds.
That lets 2114 ebuilds and 266 licences we still have to check. Does
someone wants to continue the minute check ?
CU
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