Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 16:22:28 +0100 From: Nikola =?UTF-8?B?TGXEjWnEhw==?= <nikola.lecic@anthesphoria.net> To: "Jesper Louis Andersen" <jesper.louis.andersen@gmail.com>, "Mark Linimon" <linimon@lonesome.com>, pjd <peter_dunning@dsl.pipex.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: interactive ports - the plague Message-ID: <20080305162228.3dedeab3@anthesphoria.net> 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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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 19:35:29 +0100 "Jesper Louis Andersen" <jesper.louis.andersen@gmail.com> wrote: > I am not sure it would solve the particular problem, but one could > take a look at how NetBSDs pkgsrc build system copes with licenses in > general: >=20 > 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. The purpose of this pkgsrc's mechanism is to segregate pieces of software that use various licences so that users have a better legal / / philosophical control over what is installed on their systems. This doesn't change anything if you have to go to the vendor's site, log in and accept the licence manually. > The downside is that this requires a considerable amount of work and > thought. What should happen when the license changes, for instance. Then port (or package, in pkgsrc terminology) maintainer changes the appropriate line in package's Makefile. If the license in question is a new one, its text is being added to the pkgsrc tree. (BTW, are/were there ideas of implementing something similar in Ports Collection?) - --=20 Nikola Le=C4=8Di=C4=87 =3D =D0=9D=D0=B8=D0=BA=D0=BE=D0=BB=D0=B0 =D0=9B=D0= =B5=D1=87=D0=B8=D1=9B fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iQCVAwUBR866xfzDP9K2CKGYAQORFwQAlWCXRRw7GgpydxvDtUPukhU+WkTQc+Xo FrypqJ90d6Pwip6D+jKWBqVnhQw65EJ6JmkLeYmkQnCe98/m9T7p0G20BofRHPcY rr2tgHbx3Dx29gpaXS2eNeQfuQOksnybvIbJAPW/pF9XpEzXFyzfjFjR6MD1gyF7 cLbayMeaPJ8=3D =3DmRjd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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