Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:01:04 +0200 > Mounir Lamouri <volk...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >>> The main show-stopper for this last time it came up was all those X >>> packages using their package name as a licence. Have you thought of >>> how to get that glaring QA issue addressed? >>> >> That's a very bad issue I never heard about before. >> >> I see no other options. >> >> If anyone has an idea or suggestion... >> > > Honestly, I suggest you find some poor sucker to do what the xorg team > should have done two years ago. It's a fair bit of work to fix all the > licences, but it's the best long term solution. Perhaps you could ask > the Council to see if they could nominate it as a special priority > project and encourage every developer to fix one package. > I agree it's the best long term solution but I've the feeling this is going to take a very long time. This feature (ACCEPT_LICENSE) is important to remove check_license() call from ebuilds which need user input while merging. Interaction in ebuild should be avoided and it is a blocker for a fully functional portage backend for packagekit (my gsoc project).
Maybe cleaning licenses should be done before making this feature available/mandatory but we should avoid creating a never-ending task. Mounir
