On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 01:09:45PM -0500, JD Horelick wrote: > On 21 January 2012 13:01, . <ivd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello there! > > > > Is there a chance that Gentoo may become a free distro? > > > > I'm so unhappy with the fact that there are some non-free packages in > > the main tree. > > The main goal of the GNU project was to replace the proprietary Unix system. > > You are actually ruining this goal. > > > > I'm also dissatisfied with the name of the distro. Linux is the kernel > > not the whole system. > > > > > > Cheers. > > > > To your first comment, I believe you can put: > > ACCEPT_LICENSES="@FSF-APPROVED" > > in your /etc/make.conf and with that, portage will only allow you to > install software with a license approved by the FSF. > > As for your second comment.....No comment. :P >
To answer your question: Gentoo Linux is a free distro. To be more precise, it is a free meta-distribution. In fact, all of the packages in the tree are free. As to the name: 'Gentoo' is the name of the organization, 'Linux' is the name of the operating system. 'Gentoo Linux' is a fairly sensible name for a product. -- Mr. Aaron W. Swenson Gentoo Linux Developer Email : titanof...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 2C00 7719 4F85 FB07 A49C 0E31 5713 AA03 D1BB FDA0 GnuPG ID : D1BBFDA0
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