Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:19:02 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Jesper Louis Andersen <jesper.louis.andersen@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: interactive ports - the plague Message-ID: <20080305061902.GL68971@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <56a0a2840803041035n3f6b30davc1f97d9333c817a8@mail.gmail.com> References: <47CBC3C5.9050007@bsdforen.de> <20080303155354.2043d131@gumby.homeunix.com.> <47CC26F3.7020709@cyberbotx.com> <15808613.post@talk.nabble.com> <20080303195704.GA18100@soaustin.net> <56a0a2840803041035n3f6b30davc1f97d9333c817a8@mail.gmail.com>
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--FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 07:35:29PM +0100, Jesper Louis Andersen wrote: >For each license type, there is a knob. The knob could normally be >interactive, yielding the exact same behaviour as now. But if an >appropriate ACCEPT_LICENSE_FOO=3DYes is found in make.conf, then the >user has read and accepted that particular license type once and for >all. How does this handle click-through agreements where you have to tick a box to agree to the license before the vendor will release the source code? And Sun requires you to login as well. >The downside is that this requires a considerable amount of work and >thought. What should happen when the license changes, for instance. If a vendor has gone to the effort of implementing a click-through license and the FreeBSD Project implements a tool to bypass it then I would expect that the vendor would become somewhat annoyed. --=20 Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHzjtW/opHv/APuIcRAkQiAJ9n3360p9EegZ+ZIAwPRZeD6Iu54ACgsdUh JcNMig0E9Iv0rfMy0O1qDok= =SA7d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5--
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