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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@×××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 12:33:24
Message-Id: 20061201122739.0060cf8a@snowdrop
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited by Steve Long
1 On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:05:49 +0000 Steve Long
2 <slong@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
3 | Ciaran: does the group stuff Donnie mentioned above fix this?
4
5 No. That's a massive abuse of groups. If people wanted to just accept
6 any licence necessary to install a particular package, they'd disable
7 licence filtering. The purpose of groups is to allow people to quickly
8 select licences that have been approved by various organisations that
9 have lawyers checking this kind of thing.
10
11 | Secondly, how difficult would it be for you to do what he asked? I
12 | know it's not your responsibility, I just want to know whether you
13 | can do it fairly easily.
14
15 It's a couple of hours work, and it requires tree access...
16
17 --
18 Ciaran McCreesh
19 Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org
20 Web : http://ciaranm.org/
21 as-needed is broken : http://ciaranm.org/show_post.pl?post_id=13

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