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From: Lance Albertson <ramereth@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] "Commercial" software in portage
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:00:25
Message-Id: 4331E4F5.3090506@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] "Commercial" software in portage by Chris Gianelloni
1 Chris Gianelloni wrote:
2 > On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 10:31 -0700, Matthew Marlowe wrote:
3 >
4 >>>>We could add a license, called "commercial" into the tree. This license
5 >>>>would look like the following.
6 >>
7 >>I would definitly support adding "commercial" as a license group as part of
8 >>GLEP23 implementation.
9 >
10 >
11 > This isn't so much talking about GLEP23, but doing an interim
12 > implementation *now* since I've not heard anything from GLEP23 for some
13 > time.
14 >
15 >
16 >>As part of adding any new commercial license to the tree, developers would have
17 >>to add the license to the commercial group.
18 >>
19 >>
20 >>>> While this will break completely
21 >>>>interactive ebuilds until GLEP23 is fully implemented, a user can add
22 >>>>the license to make.conf in an ACCEPT_LICENSE variable, to keep portage
23 >>>>from asking again.
24 >>
25 >>We wouldnt break anything (hopefully) if we just do this as I specified above.
26 >
27 >
28 > Except GLEP23 isn't implemented, so we cannot rely on it.
29
30 Is this just a one-off implementation until GLEP 23 is implemented, or
31 something that will complement it? Whats going to happen to this data
32 after GLEP23 gets implemented? I'd hate to see something added simply
33 because its a quick one-off solution to make something work. I'd rather
34 see people focus on the actual GLEP and moving it along. Of course, if
35 this data will just be an added feature of GLEP23, I don't see a problem.
36
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Re: [gentoo-dev] "Commercial" software in portage Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>