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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Marking GPL-incompatible linkage?
From:       Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2 () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2006-12-27 19:34:20
Message-ID: 1167248060.11307.13.camel () inertia ! twi-31o2 ! org
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On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 21:22 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> I wonder if with ACCEPT_LICENSES it would be possible to get a way to 
> represent this issue, like a "unredistributable" fake license, disabled 
> during GRP building for instance, so that the packages needing that license 
> wouldn't be built in binary form and redistributed by us.

Nope.

> Any proposal on this issue?

USE=bindist

If that is set, then we don't link to libmp4v2, no matter what else USE
says.  This is how we generally get around issues such as this.  It
isn't necessarily optimal, but it is the current best solution that we
have and it'll match up with our other packages.

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee
Gentoo Foundation

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