From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 5 06:19:07 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCA53106566B for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 06:19:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from mail11.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail11.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.192]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D65C8FC1F for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 06:19:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (c220-239-20-82.belrs4.nsw.optusnet.com.au [220.239.20.82]) by mail11.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m256J4H9010327 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:19:05 +1100 Received: from server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (localhost.vk2pj.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) by server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m256J4qa074721; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:19:04 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from peter@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org) Received: (from peter@localhost) by server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m256J2Y4074720; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:19:02 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from peter) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:19:02 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy To: Jesper Louis Andersen Message-ID: <20080305061902.GL68971@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <56a0a2840803041035n3f6b30davc1f97d9333c817a8@mail.gmail.com> X-PGP-Key: http://members.optusnet.com.au/peterjeremy/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: interactive ports - the plague X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:19:08 -0000 --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--