Re: Gentoo GNU/Linux and non-free packages

[Richard Stallman]

    > If you use Gentoo, you have to work really hard to avoid installing
    > non-free software.

    Do you know this from first experience, or is it only hearsay?

Neither: I got a personal report from someone.  Since I won't install
non-100%-free distros, this is as close to it as I could get.

    > Someone recently told me that some innocent-sounding package pulled
    > in some non-free fonts, and he found out about this because the font
    > package wanted him to agree to an EULA.

    This is clearly not intended behaviour, and the person should have
    reported a bug to the Gentoo bugtracker.

I will suggest to him that he report it.

I hope that Gentoo will also decide not to include ports for nonfree
packages.  Whether people use such programs is their responsibility,
but whether we point them at such programs is our responsibility.