Re: [gentoo-dev] License Checking

[brett holcomb]

I guess my concern is that Gentoo has struck an excellent 
balance between keeping the free software philosophy and 
making a distro that is usuable for cases when commerical 
or non-free software has to be used.  Now we have people 
who want to Debianize Gentoo by at least forcing us to do 
things to use "immoral licenses".  If all the free 
software people are so hot to worry about pure systems 
then let them be the ones who have to do the work - don't 
force it on us.  If that's not acceptable then use Debian. 

Having served my time as a windows 
Admin/user/maintainer/etc I am a strong supporter of free 
software but this inane insistance on creating a "pure 
distro free from immoral licenses" is going to kill the 
acceptance of Linux. People who have to make things work 
aren't going to put up with it and will  scratch distros 
like that off the list of considerations.  Do that to 
Gentoo and a lot of users will find another distro.

So assume we make it so the rest of us have to do the work 
to make Gentoo usable - will it stop with just having to 
modify /etc/make.conf or once that is achieved what's next 
- eliminate packages that are "immorally licensed" but are 
necessary to make Gentoo usable because we don't believe 
in the licenses .  It appears choice is good except when 
it doesn't agree with a political philosophy.

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 03:40:15 +0000
 Luke-Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On Friday 28 November 2003 12:20 am, Brett I. Holcomb 
wrote:
But many others would and do accept them.  You want us 
to jump through
hoops to maintain what we have now so you don't have to.
Adding a single line to make.conf is hardly jumping 
through hoops, especially 
considering that people should consider changes to 
make.conf when upgrading 
Portage anyway...
- -- 
Luke-Jr
Developer, Gentoo Linux
http://www.gentoo.org/
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQE/xsOjZl/BHdU+lYMRAt0NAJ4oefrRqybVZHwDVAZpJsXzs045nQCeMb1I
pYWnKNaEm1FlMIMR+q8bgtU=
=AK0u
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----


--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list