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Marius Mauch <genone@g.o> posted |
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20061118085336.7a056312@××××××××××××××××××××××.net, excerpted below, on |
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Sat, 18 Nov 2006 08:53:36 +0100: |
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> ACCEPT_LICENSE |
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> This GLEP proposes that a user be able to explicitly accept or decline |
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> licenses by editing a new variable ``ACCEPT_LICENSE`` in |
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> ``/etc/make.conf``. |
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> As an extension, ``ACCEPT_LICENSE`` must also support `license groups`_. |
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> This GLEP proposes that the license group be prepended by the special |
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> character "``@``". |
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> Portage Behaviour |
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> ----------------- |
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> Unaccepted licenses will be treated like any other masked package, that |
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> is emerge will display a message listing any license that has to be |
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> accepted before the package can be merged with a pointer to the exact |
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> license text. |
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Suggested that a per-package user-override file be specified as well, |
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along with its format. Call it package.license or whatever. The idea being |
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that a user may wish to accept a specific license for a specific package, |
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but not globally. |
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This being Gentoo, this is likely to be implemented anyway, but specifying |
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it and its format in the glep standardizes it, useful when multiple |
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package managers are a factor. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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