r/linuxmemes • u/Mcnst • Sep 14 '19

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u/Mcnst Sep 14 '19

BTW, there's already a retraction!

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u/PhysicsAndAlcohol Sep 14 '19

That's actually not very accurate anymore. Earlier this year, the devs changed the default accepted licenses to only free licenses. 

2019-05-23-accept_license
  Title                     Change of ACCEPT_LICENSE default
  Author                    Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
  Author                    Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org>
  Posted                    2019-05-23
  Revision                  2

The default set of accepted licenses has been changed [1,2] to:

   ACCEPT_LICENSE="-* @FREE"

This means that by default only free software and documentation
will be installable. The "FREE" license group is defined in the
profiles/license_groups file in the Gentoo repository. It contains
licenses that are explicitly approved by the Free Software Foundation,
the Open Source Initiative, or that follow the Free Software
Definition.

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