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From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSES in Portage?
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 21:41:17
Message-Id: 1095457224.7914.46.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSES in Portage? by Chris Gianelloni
1 On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 17:02, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
2 > On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 00:44, Peter Gordon wrote:
3 > > I remember reading something about an ACCEPT_LICENSE feature
4 > > that would allow one to add something like:
5 > >
6 > > ACCEPT_LICENSES="@OSI-APPROVED"
7 > >
8 > > in their /etc/make.conf and it would use only OSI-approved
9 > > licenses (GPL-2, MPL, LGPL, etc.). Just to satiate my curiosity,
10 > > Is this going to be implemented in Gentoo or Portage any time soon?
11 >
12 > No.
13 >
14 > /me ducks
15 >
16 > I really hope this does go in sometime soon, so I can remove the hackish
17 > check_license function from the ebuilds that require it.
18
19 Speaking of which... I just fixed check_license so it accepts multiple
20 licenses in ACCEPT_LICENSE (basically, it works now).
21
22 --
23 Chris Gianelloni
24 Release Engineering - Operations/QA Manager
25 Games - Developer
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