On 01/01/2014 09:38 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 9:19 PM, Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> >> Is there a real example where the license matters for something >> redistributed to yourself? > > Well, "yourself" is a loose term. If I were to redistribute MS > Windows across 300 PCs for my employer I suspect some people would > have something to say about that. Heck, the RIAA wants you to re-buy > music if you want to load a song on an mp3 player that you already own > on CD. > > However, for most packages in the tree the issue is going to be how > "free" as in whatever you want the package to be. If we're going to > have ACCEPT_LICENSE in the first place it seems like this is just a > logical extension of it.
But Gentoo can't distribute MS Windows to you in the first place. Is there a package that Gentoo can distribute to you, but you can't redistribute within your organization? As I said in another reply, more license metadata is good and we should make it available. But a USE flag that changes the meaning of an important global variable is a little hacky, especially if it doesn't solve a real problem within Gentoo/Portage. If the problems are theoretical (or aren't Gentoo package management problems), maybe it's better to wait and do it right in an EAPI.
