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).

-- 
Kevin F. Quinn