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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 08:19:38
Message-Id: ejp3t5$u49$2@sea.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited by Marius Mauch
1 Marius Mauch <genone@g.o> posted
2 20061118085336.7a056312@××××××××××××××××××××××.net, excerpted below, on
3 Sat, 18 Nov 2006 08:53:36 +0100:
4
5 > ACCEPT_LICENSE
6 > --------------
7 >
8 > This GLEP proposes that a user be able to explicitly accept or decline
9 > licenses by editing a new variable ``ACCEPT_LICENSE`` in
10 > ``/etc/make.conf``.
11
12 > As an extension, ``ACCEPT_LICENSE`` must also support `license groups`_.
13 > This GLEP proposes that the license group be prepended by the special
14 > character "``@``".
15
16 > Portage Behaviour
17 > -----------------
18 >
19 > Unaccepted licenses will be treated like any other masked package, that
20 > is emerge will display a message listing any license that has to be
21 > accepted before the package can be merged with a pointer to the exact
22 > license text.
23
24 Suggested that a per-package user-override file be specified as well,
25 along with its format. Call it package.license or whatever. The idea being
26 that a user may wish to accept a specific license for a specific package,
27 but not globally.
28
29 This being Gentoo, this is likely to be implemented anyway, but specifying
30 it and its format in the glep standardizes it, useful when multiple
31 package managers are a factor.
32
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