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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    [gentoo-dev] Re: GPL violations with net-misc/vpnc?
From:       Christian Faulhammer <opfer () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2007-08-31 16:38:07
Message-ID: 20070831183807.71c5d0d1 () localhost
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Olivier Crête <tester@gentoo.org>:

> >  Great.  Thanks...so what is common practice?  Should the ebuild
> > die, telling people a feature will not be included or just exclude
> > it with an ewarn only?
> With bindist, you should just disable any non-distributable feature
> and print a ewarn.. Dieing is not nice since its used to build the
> stages, etc.

 Olivier, Steve, thanks.  So I will just emit an ewarn in the
ebuild...that way Gentoo will be the only major distribution shipping
hybrid auth in vpnc. Yay!  Other source based will offer it, too,
though.

V-Li

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