Conversion to Linux

[Billy Crook]

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 09:09, Luke Dashjr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> 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:

Actually Luke, I meant to mention that benefit of Gentoo.  As you've
just demonstrated, it's package manager, emerge, makes license type
easily sortable and available information when choosing what to
install.  You've even been able to block nonfree licenses.  My point
though, was that multiple programs share, and reuse licenses in
GNU+Linux, as where they do not in Windows.  Even the MS EULA is not
just one document.  It's a seperate document for every product.

And in the Proprietary world, you also usually have to buy one license
to install server software (sometimes one per core!) and another
license for every instance of a user using that software.  Even if you
took the money out of it, having separate licenses for running, and
making use of software is just arcane!