| Summary: | Links between LICENSE and USE are not obvious | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | hitachi <mail> |
| Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers <kernel> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | jer, kernel-misc, licenses |
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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Description
hitachi
2011-11-08 14:11:11 UTC
LICENSE=freedist is only for the USE=deblob case, which downloads additional sources from third parties to rid the kernel sources from pre-compiled binaries/firmware. If you do not want ACCEPT_LICENSE=freedist, then set USE=-deblob. Actually, there is a more profound problem here. Maybe we could describe the linkage between LICENSE and USE in metadata.xml so that this kind of confusion can be prevented and so that a solution can be integrated in sys-apps/portage. Please bring this up on the gentoo-dev mailing list. We have a team for that? :) (In reply to comment #1) > LICENSE=freedist is only for the USE=deblob case, which downloads additional > sources from third parties to rid the kernel sources from pre-compiled > binaries/firmware. If you do not want ACCEPT_LICENSE=freedist, then set > USE=-deblob. @jer: It's the other way around. USE=deblob will _remove_ firmware blobs from the kernel, therefore either USE=deblob is needed, or freedist should be accepted for the kernel (e.g. in /etc/portage/package.licenses). (In reply to comment #2) > Actually, there is a more profound problem here. Maybe we could describe > the linkage between LICENSE and USE in metadata.xml so that this kind of > confusion can be prevented and so that a solution can be integrated in > sys-apps/portage. But Portage should already have the complete information. In the current case, LICENSE contains "!deblob? ( freedist )". What should metadata.xml add to that? That would mean it's invalid after all. Just adding sys-kernel/gentoo-sources deblob to /etc/portage/package.use did not change the message. Now I added freedist to /etc/portage/package.license . The plan is to reemerge gentoo-sources with deblob and than to remove the line from package.license. Let's see what happens. Anyway deblob should be default with gentoo-sources because people want to use free software and to use an extra licens should be an act of willing. Also the output has to be more verbose or different. The information about deblob should ship with the output. Otherwise it is very hard to find out. This did not help. Still: - sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.39-r3::gentoo (masked by: freedist license(s)) A copy of the 'freedist' license is located at '/usr/portage/licenses/freedist'. Anyway gentoo-sources is emerged with use: deblob. (In reply to comment #6) > Now I added freedist to /etc/portage/package.license . How have you added it? It should be a line like this: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources freedist > Anyway deblob should be default with gentoo-sources because people want to > use free software and to use an extra licens should be an act of willing. You can't really generalise like this. Different people may have different priorities; maybe some of them simply like their hardware functioning? If you want the default to be changed, then probably it's best to discuss it with upstream kernel maintainers. (Though I'd guess that it has been discussed before.) (In reply to comment #8) > You can't really generalise like this. Different people may have different <snip> +1 Speaking as a member of the Gentoo Kernel team I agree with Ulrich's statements. (In reply to comment #8) > (In reply to comment #6) > > Now I added freedist to /etc/portage/package.license . > > How have you added it? It should be a line like this: > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources freedist > Hi, no! I added the following to /etc/portage/package.use : sys-kernel/gentoo-sources deblob This should free me. So there should not be any message that sais: - sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.39-r3::gentoo (masked by: freedist license(s)) A copy of the 'freedist' license is located at '/usr/portage/licenses/freedist'. I do not want to have the line in package.license. I don't want to accept that license. I want to have free software and I want gentoo to know that I am using free software. > > Anyway deblob should be default with gentoo-sources because people want to > > use free software and to use an extra licens should be an act of willing. > > You can't really generalise like this. Different people may have different > priorities; maybe some of them simply like their hardware functioning? If you > want the default to be changed, then probably it's best to discuss it with > upstream kernel maintainers. (Though I'd guess that it has been discussed > before.) I now can see this point an I can live with this. But I still think the kernel is the most importend part of linux and the kernel we use should be defind as free software! If the kernel isn't free what the hack with the rest? Maybe I need to reemerge a second time. Wait till tomorrow, please. |
