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On Wednesday 10 March 2004 13:29, Paul Varner wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 21:47, Jason Stubbs wrote: |
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> > On Wednesday 10 March 2004 01:17, Paul Varner wrote: |
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> > > The only thing that I didn't see addressed that hasn't been commented |
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> > > upon is I would like to see the ability to have user defined license |
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> > > groups added. |
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> > I'm not wholly against the idea, but of what use would they be? To be |
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> > more specific, what's the difference between a user specifying licenses |
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> > in a group and referencing it from make.conf and just specifying them in |
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> > make.conf? |
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> The lines I was thinking of were for someone that had their own concept |
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> of what "Free" licenses they would accept being able to create a file of |
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> some sort that defined exactly what they wanted and then referencing |
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> that group from the make.conf file. I personally find it easier to use |
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> a separate file for something that can take more than a single line of |
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> text, than to edit it in the make.conf. |
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Okay, this makes sense. Especially when looking at it from a business point of |
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view where there are several (100s?) of machines to manage. |
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> Although in writing this, maybe I should take the code for ufed and modify |
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> it to work with the ACCEPT_LICENSE and call it alfed :) |
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Brian Harring is already looking into doing this. :) I decided to leave it out |
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of the GLEP as it is an additional component rather than integral |
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functionality. |
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Regards, |
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Jason Stubbs |
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