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On Thursday 27 November 2003 16:19, Luke-Jr wrote: |
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> > Can we get some statistical data on this? |
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> Since Portage as it is right now doesn't pay any attention to licenses, its |
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> legality could be questioned (as with the games issue before?) |
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If you want a hand count, I do want to use non-free software, and I do want to |
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read every non-free license before installing something. |
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> > and if you choose to restrict |
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> > yourself to only free software or other licensing scheme, you can make |
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> > the necessary changes yourself. Otherwise you will have a ton of users |
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> > asking "why can't i emerge package foo?", or filing bugs because of this, |
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> > etc. |
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> If Portage displays a clear enough message, there shouldn't be a problem |
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> with this... |
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We could further reduce the effort needed by having a switch to portage to get |
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it to interactively prompt the user to accept any outstanding licenses, and |
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allow portage to update ACCEPT_LICENSES in the same way it updates the world |
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file. |
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Toby Dickenson |
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