Conversion to Linux

Luke Dashjr luke at dashjr.org
Wed Nov 5 09:09:55 CST 2008


On Tuesday 04 November 2008 07:52:36 pm Billy Crook wrote:
> One quite refreshing thing about Free Software is that most of it uses
> only a small handful of licenses. 

If only it was that small... On my desktop machine, my approved licenses list 
is not at all short:
        GPL-1                                
        GPL-2-with-linking-exception         
        LGPL-2                               
        Arphic                               
        wxWinLL-3                            
        FDL-1.1                              
        EPL-1.0                              
        as-is                                
        freedist                             
        publicDomain:                        
                ANTLR                        
        BSD-based:                           
                FLEX                         
                MIT                          
                xev                          
                xkill                        
                xvinfo                       
                xdriinfo                     
                xfontsel                     
                xorg-server                  
                compositeproto               
                libXres                      
                tcp_wrappers_license         
                libXxf86misc                 
                xf86rushproto                
                font-bh-ttf                  
                font-bitstream-type1         
                xf86vidmodeproto             
                xf86-input-joystick          
                xlsatoms                     
                xbitmaps                     
                xinit                        
                rgb                          
                font-util                    
                xwud                         
                libXfont                     
                pixman                       
                printproto                   
                xf86-video-fbdev             
                fontsproto                   
                makedepend                   
                libXi                        
                libXfixes                    
                xf86-input-mouse             
                libXaw                       
                mkfontscale                  
                xmodmap                      
                iceauth                      
                util-macros                  
                xineramaproto                
                fontconfig                   
                libdrm                       
                evieext                      
                bitmap                       
                xhost                        
                libXtst                      
                libXrender                   
                libXrandr                    
                libXres                      
                libXinerama                  
                libXScrnSaver                
                twm                          
                libXp                        
                xbacklight                   
                font-misc-meltho             
                libFS                        
                recordproto                  
                libxkbfile                   
                randrproto                   
                font-sony-misc               
                openssl                      
                xf86-video-ati               
                smproxy                      
                libXdmcp                     
                libXvMC                      
                xf86bigfontproto             
                liblbxutil                   
                Retroactive-Auto-Upgrade: glproto
                inputproto                       
                xsetroot                         
                xset                             
                xwd                              
                sessreg                          
                xgamma                           
                libfontenc                       
                xrefresh                         
                libXau                           
                libICE                           
                xpr                              
                xf86dga                          
                xcursor-themes                   
                xrandr                           
                xdpyinfo                         
                bdftopcf                         
                libXxf86dga                      
                libXext                          
                font-misc-ethiopic               
                libXpm                           
                font-screen-cyrillic             
                font-bitstream-speedo            
                resourceproto                    
                xsetmode                         
                libXcursor                       
                fixesproto                       
                libXrandr                        
                bigreqsproto                     
                xf86-input-keyboard              
                libSM                            
                libXfontcache                    
                CMake                            
                xprop                            
                font-arabic-misc                 
                renderproto                      
                xf86miscproto                    
                font-cronyx-cyrillic             
                xmessage                         
                xclock                           
                JNIC                             
                font-mutt-misc                   
                libXxf86vm                       
                xtrans                           
                scrnsaverproto                   
                xf86dgaproto                     
                xf86-input-evdev                 
                damageproto                      
                xcursorgen                       
                xproto                           
                xlsclients                       
                libX11                           
                appres                           
                xwininfo                         
                libXmu                           
                xf86driproto                     
                xcmiscproto                      
                xauth                            
                libXft                           
                libXdamage                       
                xf86-video-vesa                  
                luit                             
                mkfontdir                        
                JamesClark                       
                JasPer2.0                        
        PHP-3                                    
        PAM                                      
        font-misc-cyrillic                       
        FTL                                      
        RSA-MD4                                  
        RSA-MD5                                  
        BEER-WARE                                
        Info-ZIP                                 
        xextproto                                
        xkbevd                                   
        sip                                      
        fontcacheproto                           
        Public-domain:                           
                font-micro-misc                  
                font-winitzki-cyrillic           
                font-misc-misc                   
        OracleDB                                 
        CPL-1.0                                  
        imagemagick                              
        BZIP2                                    
        vim                                      
        FESTIVAL                                 
        BitTorrent                               
        Subversion                               
        Sudo                                     
        lsof                                     
        w3m                                      
        PSF-2.2                                  
        IBM                                      
        MPL-1.1                                  
        gnuplot (interesting)                    
        vlgothic                                 
                mplus-fonts                      
        IPL-1                                    
        Apache-1.1                               
        EPL                                      
        JDOM                                     
        icu                                      
        dom4j                                    
        jdepend                                  
        saxpath                                  
        jaxen                                    
        jcraft                                   
        WTFPL-2                                  
        CDDL                                     
        CDDL-Schily                              
        NPL-1.1                                  
        xorg-docs                                
        JPython                                  
        bea.ri.jsr173                            
        APSL-2                                   
        OpenSoftware                             

        AMBIGUOUS-no-fee:
                font-bitstream-100dpi
                x11perf              
                font-adobe-75dpi     
                libxkbui             
                font-isas-misc       
                font-sun-misc        
                xcmsdb               
                xsm                  
                libXv                
                font-schumacher-misc 
                CNRI                 
                setxkbmap            
                font-adobe-100dpi    
                trapproto            
                font-dec-misc        
                videoproto           
                kbproto              
                xkbutils             
                font-bitstream-75dpi
                xrdb
                libXt
                xkbcomp

        UNCERTAIN-TRIVIAL:
                xorg-sgml-doctools
        UNCERTAIN-LIKELY-OK:
                encodings
                font-alias
                font-cursor-misc



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