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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] License Checking
From:       Marius Mauch <genone () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2003-11-29 1:54:35
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On 11/29/03  Christian Birchinger wrote:

> A small thought about all this license default stuff.
> I think it should accept everything by default which doesn't
> ask the user to accept something on first launch or installer
> start. This is mostly everything which comes as source or in
> normal .tar.gz archives. The reason is that with this kind of
> software the user has to unpack everything anyway to read the
> LICENSE file or the README.
> In reality this are mostly games or "big" commercial apps.
> That's ok because those arent that many. What i would hate to
> see is that the user needs to accept licenses for stuff like djb
> ware (no i'm no fan of it it's just an example).

my 0.02¢: add all non-problematic licenses to make.globals and add
several examples to make.conf for "fsf-only", "fsf+osi", "status-quo",
whatever-is-needed, that should cover all needs.

Marius

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