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From: Georgi Georgiev <chutz@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Linux and Licensing for RTCW, ET, Q3A and other Id games
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 04:28:56
Message-Id: 20031004042852.GD14012%chutz@gg3.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Linux and Licensing for RTCW, ET, Q3A and other Id games by Chris Gianelloni
1 On 03/10/2003 at 15:35:58(-0400), Chris Gianelloni wrote:
2 > We have since added a check_license function to the eutils.eclass.
3
4 I only have one little comment. Maybe games packages should have some other
5 restriction? Something like the big ref F that appears for fetch-restricted
6 packages like sun-jdk. My idea is that an "emerge world" would fail when it
7 tries to update the game, because check_license is going to be interactive.
8
9 Further note: a user shouldn't need to agree to a license more than once
10 (unless the license changed), so an upgrade should be reasonably welcome
11 without the check_license part.
12
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