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From: Christian Faulhammer <opfer@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: GPL violations with net-misc/vpnc?
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:38:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070831183807.71c5d0d1@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1188577081.5987.52.camel@TesterTop3.tester.ca>

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Olivier CrĂȘte <tester@gentoo.org>:

> >  Great.  Thanks...so what is common practice?  Should the ebuild
> > die, telling people a feature will not be included or just exclude
> > it with an ewarn only?
> With bindist, you should just disable any non-distributable feature
> and print a ewarn.. Dieing is not nice since its used to build the
> stages, etc.

 Olivier, Steve, thanks.  So I will just emit an ewarn in the
ebuild...that way Gentoo will be the only major distribution shipping
hybrid auth in vpnc. Yay!  Other source based will offer it, too,
though.

V-Li

-- 
Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-31 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2007-08-31 14:31   ` [gentoo-dev] Re: GPL violations with net-misc/vpnc? Christian Faulhammer
2007-08-31 16:18     ` Olivier CrĂȘte
2007-08-31 16:38       ` Christian Faulhammer [this message]
2007-08-31 16:18     ` Steve Long

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