Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 10:57 +0100, Marijn Schouten wrote:
> Duncan wrote:
> > Marien Zwart <marienz@g.o> posted
> > 20061121183634.GA6948@×××××××.localdomain, excerpted below, on  Tue, 21
> > Nov 2006 19:36:35 +0100:
> >
> >> Since check_license was (I assume) originally added because it was
> >> required for certain (mostly games) ebuilds: is the possibility to accept
> >> the license by putting a wildcard or group in ACCEPT_LICENSE "compatible"
> >> with those licenses? If it is not this would need some more thought: it
> >> would be quite confusing if certain licenses did not follow the same
> >> "rules" for groups and wildcards as other licenses, or if portage followed
> >> different rules at resolve time than check_license in eutils does.
> >
> > As I've read the GLEP (as proposed for update), you are missing something
> > here.  The package manager's treatment of ACCEPT_LICENSE will simply be
> > masking/unmasking of the appropriate ebuilds.  It won't change whether
> > interactive license agreement is required or not, simply whether such a
> > package is masked or not.  Thus, accepting an interactive license will be
> > a two-stage process -- (1) unmask it by setting ACCEPT_LICENCE
> > appropriately so the ebuild can even be considered for merging, (2) emerge
> > the package and hit the interactive merge section, actually accepting the
> > license there.
> >
> > Setting ACCEPT_LICENSE therefore won't actually accept it.  It'll simply
> > tell the package manager whether it can consider certain packages or not.
> > Once the package manager can do so, it can go ahead and actually display
> > the license for agreement if the package is actually merged.
> >
>
> Maybe it should be called ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES.

How about ACCEPTABLE_KEYWORDS, too? *roll eyes*

Seriously folks, the variable is to indicate that you accept a license.
Hence, ACCEPT_LICENSE, just like how ACCEPT_KEYWORDS means you accept
that KEYWORD.

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee
Gentoo Foundation