On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 9:17 AM, Sam Jorna <wra...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 02/06/17 23:09, Rich Freeman wrote: >> The stage3 make.conf shouldn't include this. Now, if you copied your >> make.conf from some other source like a LiveCD then that could explain >> where it came from. The flag was actually invented mainly for things >> like LiveCDs, and these are all built using USE=bindist (we couldn't >> legally distribute them otherwise). > > The stage3 make.conf does include USE=bindist by default, as it includes > packages affected by this flag (specifically openssh and openssl). It's > required, as I understand, because the stage3 does distribute binaries > of these packages, thus must have the patent-encumbered parts disabled. >
Interesting. It looks like we do set that in make.conf by default now - that might be a change from the last time I did an install as I didn't have to remove this in the past. There is no legal requirement to set bindist in the make.conf installed by the stage3. There absolutely is a legal requirement to set bindist in the make.conf used to BUILD the stage3. The two do not need to be the same. -- Rich
