Adding an "only-free" option to the ports system

[Kevin Oberman]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Martin Hanson <greencoppermine at yandex.com>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> This is a suggestion.
>
> Would it not be possible to add a feature to the ports system which
> enables the user to choose to avoid non Open Source ports?
>
> Some ports are obvious binary blobs, but other ports are less obvious.
>
> I would like to be able to add an option saying "only-free", or similar
> to Debians "main".
>
> Kind regards.
>

While a bit of a work in progress, I would think that the LICENSE facility
in ports covers this.
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com