Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Enemy Territory and Gentoo

[Dhruba Bandopadhyay]

Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> It appears that the only course of action we have left to remain good
> members of the community is to remove all id games from portage.  If
> there is someone else I should talk to about this, let me know so I can
> contact them.  We appear to be at an impass since neither of us appears
> to be getting through to the other.
>
> To be honest, I simply don't see how if I were to change the ebuild to
> display the EULA and force the user to accept before continuing does not
> meet the licensing requirements.  Since I have repeated this and gotten
> no real response on it specifically other than you repeating about a
> wrapper, I am assuming that this is not acceptable to meet the license.

Hello

Being an avid enemy territory addict I'm very distressed to hear that 
idgames on gentoo including enemy territory are becoming more of an 
impossibility as exhibited by the above email.  Please allow me to make a 
suggestion or two.

What is required here is some sort of explicit and interactive consent of 
the EULA by the gentoo user.  This can be done in two ways.

(1) Add an F flag to the ebuild thereby forcing the user to download the 
installer independently of portage and thereby agree to EULA online somewhere.

(2) Add an environment variable so that the package will only install when 
the environment variable is set correctly.  So, when the ebuild is 
executed initially it will output a message saying "Please read the EULA 
on <URL> and extend your explicit consent by doing the following".

	AGREE_EULA="yes" emerge enemy-territory

Personally, I am tempted to go with the second option above as this  not 
only fulfills the EULA requirement but also makes the ebuild 
non-interactive which in my opinion all ebuilds should most definitely be.

(3) The other non-interactive option is as mentioned in the previous email 
adding a wrapper to the main executable which asks for consent on first 
run and then stores evidence of consent on the local filesystem.  All 
future executions of the game proceed as normal.

I look forward to receiving feedback on these propositions and trust that 
a mutual agreement shall be reached between all concerned parties.

With regards
Dhruba Bandopadhyay


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