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From: Christian Faulhammer <opfer@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: GPL violations with net-misc/vpnc?
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:02:34
Message-Id: 20070831183807.71c5d0d1@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GPL violations with net-misc/vpnc? by "Olivier CrĂȘte"
1 Olivier CrĂȘte <tester@g.o>:
2
3 > > Great. Thanks...so what is common practice? Should the ebuild
4 > > die, telling people a feature will not be included or just exclude
5 > > it with an ewarn only?
6 > With bindist, you should just disable any non-distributable feature
7 > and print a ewarn.. Dieing is not nice since its used to build the
8 > stages, etc.
9
10 Olivier, Steve, thanks. So I will just emit an ewarn in the
11 ebuild...that way Gentoo will be the only major distribution shipping
12 hybrid auth in vpnc. Yay! Other source based will offer it, too,
13 though.
14
15 V-Li
16
17 --
18 Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project
19 <URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode
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21 <URL:http://www.faulhammer.org/>

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