Re: [gentoo-user] Opera-12 license mask warning

[Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, 31 Jul 2016 10:45:55 +0100 Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 31 Jul 2016 11:09:36 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On 31/07/2016 09:56, Mick wrote:
> > > I got this after an update yesterday and was left puzzled as to what I am
> > > meant to do ...
> > > 
> > > !!! The following installed packages are masked:
> > > - www-client/opera-12.16_p1860-r1::gentoo (masked by: OPERA-12 license(s))
> > > A copy of the 'OPERA-12' license is located at
> > > '/usr/portage/licenses/OPERA-12'.
> > > 
> > > Is it a matter of adding in /etc/portage/make.conf:
> > >  ACCEPT_LICENSE="OPERA-12"
> > > 
> > > or am I supposed to go through some other ritual?  Either way, couldn't
> > > the
> > > above message be more informative to do away with any guessing?
> > 
> > echo $category/$package $license > /etc/portage/package.license
> > 
> > I guess it's not listed explicitly in every ebuild with a non-free
> > license because you are supposed to know how to unmask stuff on your on
> > Gentoo system.
> > 
> > The info is in the portage man pages
> 
> Ahh!  Yes, I had forgotten about that file.  Thank you Alan.
> 
> I was following http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0023.html and the 
> ACCEPT_LICENSE directive in make.conf as a way of managing licenses, but then 
> I found an entry about skype in package.license.  Hmm ...  I wonder who put 
> that in there ...  :-)
> 
> I think this warning confused me because it installed the package and *then* 
> it issued a warning about the license.  Usually the warning comes before, 
> requiring user input before it continues with the installation.

This warning was added just recently per bug 573050. Both Opera
licenses are clear EULA and thus were added to @EULA license group,
which requires explicit user approval if default ACCEPT_LICENSE is
used. That's why you have not seen the message during opera
installation. For fresh install it will appear unless EULA is
allowed in ACCEPT_LICENSE (I'm not recommending this, since EULA
licenses are not supposed to be implicitly accepted.).

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko

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