[gentoo-user] Licenses

2007-01-16 Thread Fredrik Tolf
Hi List! I was wondering -- is there a way to find out which of the licenses in /usr/portage/licenses can be considered free software licenses (without having to read and understand them)? I'm trying to find out what packages I have installed that cannot be considered free, and while it's easy to

Re: [gentoo-user] Licenses

2007-01-16 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 00:54, Fredrik Tolf wrote: > I was wondering -- is there a way to find out which of the licenses > in /usr/portage/licenses can be considered free software licenses > (without having to read and understand them)? > > I'm trying to find out what packages I have installed

Re: [gentoo-user] Licenses

2007-01-17 Thread Fredrik Tolf
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 03:28 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Wednesday 17 January 2007 00:54, Fredrik Tolf wrote: > > I was wondering -- is there a way to find out which of the licenses > > in /usr/portage/licenses can be considered free software licenses > > (without having to read and unders

Re: [gentoo-user] Licenses

2007-01-18 Thread Avaricen
Fredrik Tolf wrote: Hi List! I was wondering -- is there a way to find out which of the licenses in /usr/portage/licenses can be considered free software licenses (without having to read and understand them)? I'm trying to find out what packages I have installed that cannot be considered free,

Re: [gentoo-user] Licenses

2007-01-18 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 19 January 2007 01:07, kashani wrote: > > What do you mean you had realplayer pulled in by Mplayer? Also I'm > > unaware of anyone really caring about licenses. If you're not very happy > > with proprietary software, it would be wise to play with GnextSense > > which is based upon free so

Re: [gentoo-user] Licenses

2007-01-18 Thread kashani
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: And mplayer doesn't depend on ffmpeg at all... It is true mplayer doesn't depend on you installing an ffmpeg package, but mplayer point releases have the ffmpeg libav dirs which are built into the mplayer binary. That makes mplayer a wrapper around the ffmpeg engin

Re: [gentoo-user] Licenses

2007-01-18 Thread Steve Dibb
kashani wrote: In any case both recent versions of ffmpeg and mplayer in portage, 20061016 or better, have the newer ffmpeg real decoder. However I'm not sure it supports everything in real10 or whatever they're calling the Helix format. You can also skip installing win32/real codecs and

Re: [gentoo-user] Licenses

2007-01-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:12:03 +, Avaricen wrote: > > Btw., shouldn't portage have some kind of flag to at least warn if a > > proprietary package is being pulled in through dependencies? It will have, this has been discussed on the dev list. > I just > > discovered that I have realplayer ins

Re: [gentoo-user] Licenses

2007-01-31 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi there folks... I'm new to the list, so thought I'd say hello. On 00:54 Wed 17 Jan , Fredrik Tolf wrote: > Btw., shouldn't portage have some kind of flag to at least warn if a > proprietary package is being pulled in through dependencies? I just > discovered that I have realplayer installed

Re: [gentoo-user] Licenses

2007-01-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 11:14, Peter Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Licenses': > On 00:54 Wed 17 Jan , Fredrik Tolf wrote: > > Btw., shouldn't portage have some kind of flag to at least warn if a > > proprietary package is