Re: [gentoo-dev] Non-free software in Gentoo

2010-01-07 Thread Vincent Launchbury
Harald van D3k wrote: > Right, which is why at the same time it would be useful to have an > option to not install those files. There's no problem with USE > conditionals in LICENSE; LICENSE="GPL-2 firmware? ( freedist )" or > expanded further would be fine, and simply nuke those files on install >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Documentation licenses and license_groups

2010-01-07 Thread Hanno Böck
Am Dienstag 05 Januar 2010 schrieb Ulrich Mueller: > Licenses for Works of Opinion and Judgment (maybe omit this group?): > >CCPL-Attribution-NoDerivs-3.0 (there's only 2.5 in ${PORTDIR}/licenses/) >("GNU Verbatim Copying License" - not yet in ${PORTDIR}/licenses/) I think they don't be

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA last rites for app-emulation/uae

2010-01-07 Thread Hanno Böck
Am Dienstag 05 Januar 2010 schrieb Diego E. Pettenò: > # Diego E. Pettenò (05 Jan 2010) > # on behalf of QA team > # > # Fails to build with different configurations (bug #205050, > # open January 2008, with patch and bug #262243, open > # March 2009). > # > # Removal on 2010-03-06 > app-emulatio

[gentoo-dev] Some ideas on the licensing issue

2010-01-07 Thread Hanno Böck
Hi, Had some more thoughts about that licensing issue and wanted to make some suggestions. I think the GPL-compatible set makes barely sense. The problem with it is, as stated by various people, that we have different GPLs. GPL2 and 3 are incompatible, so it doesn't mean "GPL-compatible" are a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Documentation licenses and license_groups

2010-01-07 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Hanno Böck wrote: >> Licenses for Works of Opinion and Judgment (maybe omit this group?): >> >> CCPL-Attribution-NoDerivs-3.0 (there's only 2.5 in ${PORTDIR}/licenses/) >> ("GNU Verbatim Copying License" - not yet in ${PORTDIR}/licenses/) > I think they don't belong the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Documentation licenses and license_groups

2010-01-07 Thread Hanno Böck
Am Donnerstag 07 Januar 2010 schrieb Ulrich Mueller: > So the plan is: > - Add GPL-1 and LGPL-2 to @GPL-COMPATIBLE > - Add a new group "@FSF-APPROVED-OTHER" containing the following: > Arphic > CCPL-Attribution-2.0 > CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-2.0 > DSL > FDL-1.1 FDL-1.2 FDL-1.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Non-free software in Gentoo

2010-01-07 Thread Richard Freeman
On 01/07/2010 01:19 AM, Vincent Launchbury wrote: All I'm asking for is that users who care about this will be shown an accurate license, I think that this really sums this whole thing up. Can you run a computer with ONLY FOSS on it (firmware to ROMs to hard drive controlers) - probably not,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some ideas on the licensing issue

2010-01-07 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Hanno Böck wrote: > I think the GPL-compatible set makes barely sense. The problem with > it is, as stated by various people, that we have different GPLs. > GPL2 and 3 are incompatible, so it doesn't mean "GPL-compatible" are > all licenses that can be mixed together. I d

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some ideas on the licensing issue

2010-01-07 Thread Richard Freeman
On 01/07/2010 05:46 AM, Hanno Böck wrote: I think the GPL-compatible set makes barely sense. ++ Difference between OSI and FSF approved: ... I think the definitions of FSF and OSI are pretty much the same, ... So I'd like it much more to have one big "This is free and open source software"

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some ideas on the licensing issue

2010-01-07 Thread Hanno Böck
Am Donnerstag 07 Januar 2010 schrieb Ulrich Mueller: > > On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Hanno Böck wrote: > > > > I think the GPL-compatible set makes barely sense. The problem with > > it is, as stated by various people, that we have different GPLs. > > GPL2 and 3 are incompatible, so it doesn't mean "GP

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2010-01-07 Thread Denis Dupeyron
2010/1/2 Pacho Ramos : > [...] I failed to see if, finally, an approval > from the council is needed for merging [multilib] to portage-2.2 or not The only approval that's required to merge anything to an official portage branch is Zac's (zmedico). He may have to follow some rules and wait for some

Re: [gentoo-dev] Non-free software in Gentoo

2010-01-07 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 01:19:24AM -0500, Vincent Launchbury wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > Also note that the license of the firmware files do not matter to > > almost everyone using the kernel, as almost no one uses those files > > anymore, the ones in the linux-firmware package should be used > > i