[gentoo-dev] Re: New license: yEd Software License Agreement

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>]

On 27/04/12 20:38, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Amadeusz Żołnowski<aidecoe@gentoo.org>  wrote:
>>
>> And this is probably the case when user has to accept a license on the
>> website.  This is URL for zip archive of yEd-3.9.1:
>>
>>   http://www.yworks.com/en/products_download.php?file=yEd-3.9.1.zip
>>
>> It directs to website with license text, check-box for accept and
>> download button.  If check-box is not set, following message is shown:
>>
>>   "In order to download yEd, it is necessary that you first accept the
>>   license terms."
>>
>> If check-box is set, client is redirected to the page with actual link to
>> zip archive.
>
> It turns out the vendor is lying - you can download it fine without
> accepting the license from:
> http://www.yworks.com/products/yed/demo/yEd-3.9.1.zip
>
> No doubt the vendor WANTS users to accept the license first, but it is
> not "necessary" from a technical standpoint.

Didn't the user already accept the license by putting it in 
ACCEPT_LICENSE?  If not, portage will not download it.