From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50A99138247 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2014 02:57:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A7F22E0AAF; Thu, 2 Jan 2014 02:57:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vb0-f47.google.com (mail-vb0-f47.google.com [209.85.212.47]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B00FDE0A84 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2014 02:57:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vb0-f47.google.com with SMTP id m10so857866vbh.20 for ; Wed, 01 Jan 2014 18:57:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=cZPOpBdYjCIg9YL9c6ndmWTmNqJs/pg7YyP35MuKPPs=; b=Ou3kMESmP4LqN39ugybZK6moAGlP8jqg9dF6XQuSD61PaZM6Oys/iHBVzPZegHj8sZ xj8HfY8IpV2ranhi/XEylk6i/eBkZy/waKtfBIbveyoNemWRVLq3mAozjnDiffy4DRby hk+x1pyIAgcqxGxfyurmBSWAM1Nplo8QMdIgh63XXGVqkYmlokiKJRdcxJ1pwr5DId3T 8kmIwJpJeZgQ1Bn8pEInPyeIEKIol0B/CbRecCfW9UhYLyrLFcMddYm0zVbkf733GbqT swECrH+KQU3ZZ3X8YwF+EbJbw6rfnU9GST3WBpCKDic/M03lPTOakXMbDMDl2VzQlPs2 W6EQ== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.58.235.129 with SMTP id um1mr10685425vec.17.1388631470035; Wed, 01 Jan 2014 18:57:50 -0800 (PST) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.52.112.99 with HTTP; Wed, 1 Jan 2014 18:57:49 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <52C4D3E4.6060308@gentoo.org> References: <21188.38566.180273.751353@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <52C4C610.1000303@gentoo.org> <52C4CCC7.8050408@gentoo.org> <52C4D3E4.6060308@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 21:57:49 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: fpyrf9jOw_nRbEytzXnsix6kvsU Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new global USE flag "srcdist" From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-dev Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: fc570d16-5c30-4d5d-9b39-ecd28704447f X-Archives-Hash: 053d0c2997c3fd9c9b63d1421e67a3d7 On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > But Gentoo can't distribute MS Windows to you in the first place. Is > there a package that Gentoo can distribute to you, but you can't > redistribute within your organization? Well, ACCEPT_LICENSE is about more than just whether a package is USE=bindist. There is also nothing that prevents Portage from conceptually installing something like Windows (this stuff isn't limited to the main portage tree, and we have had proprietary software in portage before (user had to provide their own distfiles)). However, I would tend to think that any package with RESTRICT=mirror would have potential legal concerns, since we obviously set it for a reason. The specifics of any particular package are of course going to vary. > > As I said in another reply, more license metadata is good and we should > make it available. But a USE flag that changes the meaning of an > important global variable is a little hacky, especially if it doesn't > solve a real problem within Gentoo/Portage. If the problems are > theoretical (or aren't Gentoo package management problems), maybe it's > better to wait and do it right in an EAPI. Well, the LICENSE that applied to the installed files for a package could very well change due to USE flags (for example, a de-blobbed kernel). I don't think you're disputing that, and I do realize that this is a bit more "virtual." Rich