-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 19:35:29 +0100 "Jesper Louis Andersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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: > > 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=Yes 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?) - -- Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић 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= =mRjd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
