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stefan11111
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 Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2023 10:39 pm Post subject: Gentoo and FSF |
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Here is the list of FSF-approved distros:
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.en.html
Gentoo is not one of them.
With gentoo, you can have a kernel free of binary blobs and have portage only accept GPL-compatible licenses.
So why is gentoo not FSF-approved?
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skellr
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2023 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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From the website: https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html
| gnu.org wrote: | Gentoo GNU/Linux
Gentoo includes installation recipes for a number of nonfree programs in its primary package system. |
I think they really want non-free 'recipes' in a completely separate repository. Just filtering them by licence isn't good enough? |
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Ionen
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2023 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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| And they are even non-accepted by default, so like distros with a "separate" repo you have to go out of your way to install these except that rather than add "non-free" to some sources.list you're adding license names/groups to your package.license (ultimately control everything, can even be stricter and un-accept some free licenses if don't like some terms). Only difference is that your system isn't "contaminated" by some unused GPL-2 licensed text files that have nvidia written in them I guess? |
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