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ACCEPT_LICENSES in Portage?

Sep 16, 2004, 9:44 PM

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I remember reading something about an ACCEPT_LICENSE feature
that would allow one to add something like:

ACCEPT_LICENSES="@OSI-APPROVED"

in their /etc/make.conf and it would use only OSI-approved
licenses (GPL-2, MPL, LGPL, etc.). Just to satiate my curiosity,
Is this going to be implemented in Gentoo or Portage any time soon?

Thanx.
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Re: ACCEPT_LICENSES in Portage? [ In reply to ]

jstubbs at gentoo

Sep 17, 2004, 4:38 AM

Post #2 of 4 (1149 views)

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On Friday 17 September 2004 13:44, Peter Gordon wrote:
> I remember reading something about an ACCEPT_LICENSE feature
> that would allow one to add something like:
>
> ACCEPT_LICENSES="@OSI-APPROVED"
>
> in their /etc/make.conf and it would use only OSI-approved
> licenses (GPL-2, MPL, LGPL, etc.). Just to satiate my curiosity,
> Is this going to be implemented in Gentoo or Portage any time soon?

The GLEP is mostly done and half-approved. The details on the grouping
mechanism still need to be worked out and approved. The next step at the
moment is to add a repoman check on the LICENSE ebuild variable syntax. When
the tree is clean and the grouping aspects approved, the functionality will
be added to emerge.

Regards,
Jason Stubbs

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Re: ACCEPT_LICENSES in Portage? [ In reply to ]

wolf31o2 at gentoo

Sep 17, 2004, 2:02 PM

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On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 00:44, Peter Gordon wrote:
> I remember reading something about an ACCEPT_LICENSE feature
> that would allow one to add something like:
>
> ACCEPT_LICENSES="@OSI-APPROVED"
>
> in their /etc/make.conf and it would use only OSI-approved
> licenses (GPL-2, MPL, LGPL, etc.). Just to satiate my curiosity,
> Is this going to be implemented in Gentoo or Portage any time soon?

No.

/me ducks

I really hope this does go in sometime soon, so I can remove the hackish
check_license function from the ebuilds that require it.

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Re: ACCEPT_LICENSES in Portage? [ In reply to ]

wolf31o2 at gentoo

Sep 17, 2004, 2:40 PM

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On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 17:02, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 00:44, Peter Gordon wrote:
> > I remember reading something about an ACCEPT_LICENSE feature
> > that would allow one to add something like:
> >
> > ACCEPT_LICENSES="@OSI-APPROVED"
> >
> > in their /etc/make.conf and it would use only OSI-approved
> > licenses (GPL-2, MPL, LGPL, etc.). Just to satiate my curiosity,
> > Is this going to be implemented in Gentoo or Portage any time soon?
>
> No.
>
> /me ducks
>
> I really hope this does go in sometime soon, so I can remove the hackish
> check_license function from the ebuilds that require it.

Speaking of which... I just fixed check_license so it accepts multiple
licenses in ACCEPT_LICENSE (basically, it works now).

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