From: "Kevin F. Quinn" <kevquinn@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 52 - GLEP 23 revisited
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:43:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060920184304.6b91acfe@c1358217.kevquinn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1158761101.9521.8.camel@sys947.dtic.mil>
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On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:05:00 -0400
Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 13:36 +0200, Simon Stelling wrote:
>
> > Every license which a package in the portage tree depends on gets a
> > package in the ``txt-licenses/`` category. Its ebuild must install
> > the license text to ``/usr/shared/licenses/``. The initial version
> > shall be 1 if there is no version specified.
>
> This doesn't make sense to me. I have a copy of every license used in
> the portage tree already in /usr/portage/licenses - why dup that
> again?
Plus the copies in /usr/share/doc.
> We already have an existing LICENSE keywording in the ebuilds,
> why not just focus on patching portage to allow a make.conf variable
> for allowed licenses and block based on that?
Sounds good enough to me. Perhaps two variables; ALLOW_LICENSES and
DENY_LICENSES (with wildcard support).
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Kevin F. Quinn
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-20 16:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-20 11:36 [gentoo-dev] GLEP 52 - GLEP 23 revisited Simon Stelling
2006-09-20 13:09 ` Steev Klimaszewski
2006-09-20 13:21 ` Steev Klimaszewski
2006-09-20 13:22 ` Simon Stelling
2006-09-20 13:36 ` Krzysiek Pawlik
2006-09-20 13:51 ` Simon Stelling
2006-09-20 13:53 ` Brian Harring
2006-09-20 14:05 ` Michael Cummings
2006-09-20 16:03 ` Vlastimil Babka
2006-09-20 16:43 ` Kevin F. Quinn [this message]
2006-09-20 17:08 ` Mike Frysinger
2006-09-20 14:29 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2006-09-20 15:24 ` [gentoo-dev] " Luca Barbato
2006-09-20 16:18 ` Mike Frysinger
2006-09-20 16:36 ` Stephen Bennett
2006-09-20 17:34 ` Josh Saddler
2006-09-24 21:37 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
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