Re: [gentoo-dev] Enemy Territory Strikes Back

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 08:22, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote:
> Hello
>
>  From cvs changelogs I notice ID based based including ET are back in
> portage and also that they now have a licence check.
>
> -- So what dialogue resulted in them returning and what happened exactly?

Essentially, the games team decided we were going to implement the
license check and put them back in portage.  We contacted id Software
and informed them of what we were doing and asked if they had any
objections.  You can find that message sent from me in the mailing list
( a few days ago, Friday, I think).  We received a response from the CEO
of id Software which essentially read that id gives up no rights to us
at all and as long as we followed the EULA, we were kosher.  The license
check gives us compliance.

> -- What form does the licence check take exactly in theory to save me
> having to re-emerge ET?  Are ebuilds interactive for the first time ever
> in the lifetime of the operating system?

It checks the ACCEPT_LICENSES portage variable.  If the current license
(RTCW-ETEULA in this case) is not in your ACCEPT_LICENSES, then it
displays the license and forces acceptance before unpacking.  The build
is only interactive if you have not specified to accept the license.  At
this time it does not add your acceptance to your ACCEPT_LICENSES
variable for you, since we feel this is a function of portage itself
(which is in the works) and not of the function.

> -- Will this licence check now serve as the default method of handling
> EULA's for future licenced games?

Yes.  It is in the eutils.eclass and really can be used for any
licensing materials where the license must be accepted by the user to
install (not download) the package.

> My curiosity got the better of me so I had to ask :)
>
> With regards
> Dhruba Bandopadhyay
>
>
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>
-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Games Team

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