From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: jonas@bernoulli.cc, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Gentoo GNU/Linux and non-free packages
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:56:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877hrt7z5k.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1NT1AH-00015Q-TP@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:49:13 -0500")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> | Gentoo makes it easy to install a number of nonfree programs
> | through their primary package system.
> `----
>
> Well, that hardly qualifies as an still standing argument. As
> soon as the new package manager version is stable, it's only a
> matter of what defaults the Gentoo devs choose as acceptable
> licenses. I guess, they will choose only FSF and OSI approved
> licenses.
>
> Are you saying that the Gentoo developers might soon delete all the
> ports for non-free programs from Gentoo?
No, what I've meant is that the Gentoo developers might choose a default
setting of the license filter, which only accepts packages that are
completely free, e.g. packages with licenses approved by the FSF or OSI.
> That could make it a 100% free distro, [...]
I think, that such a default setting of the license filter would qualify
as 100% free. The difference with gNewSense then is only that with
Gentoo, you can add an exception if you rely on some non-free driver and
let the package manager install it. With gNewSense, you would install
that manually with the risk, that you might not be able to erase it
completely later on.
> [...] and we might be able to endorse it.
Well, I think you could endorse it with a short explanation in any case,
as soon as the version of the package manager supporting this feature
becomes stable. If a Gentoo user then puts
ACCEPT_LICENSE="-* @FSF-APPROVED @OSI-APPROVED"
into his /etc/make.conf, he can be sure that the package manager only
installs packages that are 100% free.
Bye,
Tassilo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-08 8:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-28 17:04 'bzr init-repo .' crashes for lack of module bz2. Help, please! Alan Mackenzie
2009-12-28 21:14 ` Karl Fogel
2009-12-28 23:05 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-12-29 20:08 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-12-29 20:19 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-12-29 20:57 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-12-29 23:49 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-12-31 12:06 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-12-31 17:04 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-01-03 17:33 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-01-03 18:16 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-01-03 21:56 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-01-04 0:06 ` Miles Bader
2010-01-04 0:13 ` Jason Rumney
2010-01-06 13:30 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-01-04 8:16 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-01-04 16:23 ` Richard Stallman
2010-01-04 20:42 ` Gentoo GNU/Linux and non-free packages (was: 'bzr init-repo .' crashes for lack of module bz2. Help, please!) Tassilo Horn
2010-01-05 9:03 ` Gentoo GNU/Linux and non-free packages Ulrich Mueller
2010-01-05 20:45 ` Richard Stallman
2010-01-05 20:45 ` Gentoo GNU/Linux and non-free packages (was: 'bzr init-repo .' crashes for lack of module bz2. Help, please!) Richard Stallman
2010-01-06 0:10 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2010-01-06 20:45 ` Richard Stallman
2010-01-07 8:35 ` Gentoo GNU/Linux and non-free packages Tassilo Horn
2010-01-07 22:49 ` Richard Stallman
2010-01-08 0:06 ` Marek Aaron Sapota
2010-01-08 9:30 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-01-08 11:20 ` Marek Aaron Sapota
[not found] ` <20100108111454.GC1426@fencepost.localnet>
2010-01-08 11:56 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-01-08 12:44 ` Marek Aaron Sapota
2010-01-08 14:44 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-01-08 15:47 ` Marek Aaron Sapota
2010-01-08 15:23 ` Yavor Doganov
2010-01-08 15:57 ` Marek Aaron Sapota
2010-01-08 16:23 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-01-08 16:46 ` David Kastrup
2010-01-08 8:56 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2010-01-08 23:01 ` Richard Stallman
2010-01-06 7:35 ` Tassilo Horn
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