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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Gentoo GNU/Linux and non-free packages
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:45:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1NSGH8-00041G-VX@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19267.87.538073.863392@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (message from Ulrich Mueller on Tue, 5 Jan 2010 10:03:19 +0100)

    > 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?

Neither: I got a personal report from someone.  Since I won't install
non-100%-free distros, this is as close to it as I could get.

    > 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.

I will suggest to him that he report it.

I hope that Gentoo will also decide not to include ports for nonfree
packages.  Whether people use such programs is their responsibility,
but whether we point them at such programs is our responsibility.




  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-05 20:45 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 [this message]
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
2010-01-08 23:01                                       ` Richard Stallman
2010-01-06  7:35                             ` Tassilo Horn

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