On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 05:54, Erik Swanson wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 02:33, donnie berkholz wrote:
> > I think we should accept all the licenses by default except the ones for
> > which the ACCEPT_LICENSE variable originally existed (the id games ones),
> > since users must be forced to read and agree to those. This would keep the
> > change seamless for the user unless said user wishes to change things.
> 
> As a user, I'd prefer if only OSI-approved licenses were accepted by
> default. This also seems like it'd be most in keeping with the Gentoo
> Social Contract.

As the developer whom was first bitten by the licensing issues, I would
have to agree.  Only the "free" licenses should be accepted by default. 
However, I also think that some form of logic and code needs to be added
to portage to add better support for this variable.  I think that once a
user has accepted the license, it should be added to his list of
accepted licenses automatically.  I understand that this isn't something
that would happen overnight, but it is definitely something that should
happen as far as I am concerned.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Games Team

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