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Re: Gentoo GNU/Linux and non-free packages
From: |
Ulrich Mueller |
Subject: |
Re: Gentoo GNU/Linux and non-free packages |
Date: |
Tue, 5 Jan 2010 10:03:19 +0100 |
[Apologies for being off-topic in emacs-devel, but I think that I must
answer this.]
>>>>> On Mon, 04 Jan 2010, Richard Stallman writes:
> If you use Gentoo, you have to work really hard to avoid installing
> non-free software.
Do you know this from first experience, or is it only hearsay?
> Someone recently told me that some innocent-sounding package pulled
> in some non-free fonts, and he found out about this because the font
> package wanted him to agree to an EULA.
This is clearly not intended behaviour, and the person should have
reported a bug to the Gentoo bugtracker.
Generally, we have a Social Contract (similar to Debian's) that says
that Gentoo will never depend upon a piece of software unless it
conforms to a free licence. [1]
Also, the newest version of our package manager, portage-2.2,
introduced an "ACCEPT_LICENSE" feature that allow users to filter
packages by their licence. For example, with the following setting:
ACCEPT_LICENSE="@FSF-APPROVED @OSI-APPROVED"
the package manager would only see packages whose licences have been
approved by the FSF or the OSI (the sets of licences being defined
in [2]).
Ulrich
[1] <http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/contract.xml>
[2]
<http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/profiles/license_groups?view=markup>
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- Re: 'bzr init-repo .' crashes for lack of module bz2. Help, please!, Tassilo Horn, 2010/01/04
- Re: 'bzr init-repo .' crashes for lack of module bz2. Help, please!, Richard Stallman, 2010/01/04
- Gentoo GNU/Linux and non-free packages (was: 'bzr init-repo .' crashes for lack of module bz2. Help, please!), Tassilo Horn, 2010/01/04
- Re: Gentoo GNU/Linux and non-free packages,
Ulrich Mueller <=
- Re: Gentoo GNU/Linux and non-free packages, Richard Stallman, 2010/01/05
- Re: Gentoo GNU/Linux and non-free packages (was: 'bzr init-repo .' crashes for lack of module bz2. Help, please!), Richard Stallman, 2010/01/05
- Re: Gentoo GNU/Linux and non-free packages (was: 'bzr init-repo .' crashes for lack of module bz2. Help, please!), Jonas Bernoulli, 2010/01/05
- Re: Gentoo GNU/Linux and non-free packages (was: 'bzr init-repo .' crashes for lack of module bz2. Help, please!), Richard Stallman, 2010/01/06
- Re: Gentoo GNU/Linux and non-free packages, Tassilo Horn, 2010/01/07
- Re: Gentoo GNU/Linux and non-free packages, Richard Stallman, 2010/01/07
- Re: Gentoo GNU/Linux and non-free packages, Marek Aaron Sapota, 2010/01/07
- Re: Gentoo GNU/Linux and non-free packages, Tassilo Horn, 2010/01/08
- Re: Gentoo GNU/Linux and non-free packages, Marek Aaron Sapota, 2010/01/08
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- Re: Gentoo GNU/Linux and non-free packages, Tassilo Horn, 2010/01/08