Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Marking GPL-incompatible linkage?
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 19:37:11
Message-Id: 1167248060.11307.13.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Marking GPL-incompatible linkage? by "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò"
1 On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 21:22 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
2 > I wonder if with ACCEPT_LICENSES it would be possible to get a way to
3 > represent this issue, like a "unredistributable" fake license, disabled
4 > during GRP building for instance, so that the packages needing that license
5 > wouldn't be built in binary form and redistributed by us.
6
7 Nope.
8
9 > Any proposal on this issue?
10
11 USE=bindist
12
13 If that is set, then we don't link to libmp4v2, no matter what else USE
14 says. This is how we generally get around issues such as this. It
15 isn't necessarily optimal, but it is the current best solution that we
16 have and it'll match up with our other packages.
17
18 --
19 Chris Gianelloni
20 Release Engineering Strategic Lead
21 Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
22 Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee
23 Gentoo Foundation

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