From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30258 invoked by uid 1002); 26 Nov 2003 17:18:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 14492 invoked from network); 26 Nov 2003 17:18:37 -0000 Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 09:18:35 -0800 From: Bob Miller To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20031126171835.GA23787@jogger-egg.com> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <200311191114.25081.pauldv@gentoo.org> <200311211050.59578.jasonbstubbs@mailandnews.com> <200311210226.hAL2QNe4093277@mxsf04.cluster1.charter.net> <20031121031332.GB22586@time> <20031121100737.GJ1502@gentoo.org> <32878.141.166.236.158.1069410832.squirrel@spidermail.richmond.edu> <1069412078.4883.15.camel@bengal.lan> <20031121173254.GA24867@cerberus.oppresses.us> <1069438024.27932.7.camel@bengal.lan> <20031126121732.GB25888@netswarm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031126121732.GB25888@netswarm.net> Organization: Unlikely User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo internal structure X-Archives-Salt: e338dc48-b918-4c6e-97c9-144825a42d19 X-Archives-Hash: b27ba1976dfbad6873eee33ba734b8c0 Christian Birchinger wrote: > It might sound a bit rude but i think the defaults should be > defined that most of the time only zealots need to tweak > them. I think most users don't care about most licenses and > shouldn't need to mess with this. I've seen several people express this attitude, and I like it a lot. Let me tell you about my retirement plan. I'm going to write a game, Linux-only, make it good enough that a few hundred of you will emerge it and try it out. Then I'll change the license agreement so that next time you emerge the game you'll owe me $1million US. Since you all have ACCEPT_LICENSES="*" as the default, you'll all accept my new license, I'll take you all to court (after subpoenaing apache logs from all the mirrors so I know who you are, and subpoenaing your make.conf and make.globals to prove you accepted the license), and sue you for my license fee. If I can recover 1% of what you'll all owe me, I'll be happy enough. Okay, that's NOT REALLY my plan. I'm at least slightly ethical. (-: But it illustrates why you don't under any circumstances want ACCEPT_LICENSES="*", either as the default or as an option. Accepting a license has consequences, and those consequences can hurt you.* I'd recommend against letting the parser recognize a wildcard for licenses -- there's just too much danger for people who don't know any better to hurt themselves. That's my opinion. It's worth what you paid for it. * For a real life example that's somewhat less heinous, consider the BitKeeper license. -- Bob Miller K kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com kbob@jogger-egg.com -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list