Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-28 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 18:52 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sunday 26 November 2006 18:38, Marius Mauch wrote: > > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > is there a way in the new GLEP to say "never bother me with any license > > > bullcrap" ? i made sure the current check_license() fun

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-28 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 13:07 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Saturday 18 November 2006 02:53, Marius Mauch wrote: > > Anyone interested in this feature should review the attached version. > > i've come to the party a bit late ... i cant seem to divine the answer to my > question from reading thi

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-27 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 27 November 2006 11:42, Marius Mauch wrote: > Might want to reread bug 152593 in detail, summary being "legal issues". no one in there is qualified to give any sort of legal opinion and/or advice if you want a real answer, talk to the pro-bono lawyers that are helping out the Foundatio

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-27 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:53:43 -0500 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 27 November 2006 10:48, Marius Mauch wrote: > > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sunday 26 November 2006 18:38, Marius Mauch wrote: > > > > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-27 Thread Harald van Dijk
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 05:42:31PM +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: > On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:53:43 -0500 > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Monday 27 November 2006 10:48, Marius Mauch wrote: > > > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Sunday 26 November 2006 18:38, Mariu

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-27 Thread Marius Mauch
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:53:43 -0500 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 27 November 2006 10:48, Marius Mauch wrote: > > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sunday 26 November 2006 18:38, Marius Mauch wrote: > > > > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-27 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 27 November 2006 10:48, Marius Mauch wrote: > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 26 November 2006 18:38, Marius Mauch wrote: > > > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > is there a way in the new GLEP to say "never bother me with any > > > > license bullcra

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-27 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 18:52:19 -0500 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 26 November 2006 18:38, Marius Mauch wrote: > > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > is there a way in the new GLEP to say "never bother me with any > > > license bullcrap" ? i made sure the curren

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-26 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 26 November 2006 18:38, Marius Mauch wrote: > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > is there a way in the new GLEP to say "never bother me with any license > > bullcrap" ? i made sure the current check_license() function respected > > the idea of "*" so that i can put this in my

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-26 Thread Marius Mauch
On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:03:08 -0500 Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is used to mask the package, correct. When a package is masked, it > gives the output of the license, or, if the license it too large (I > think Marius set it at 20K) informs the user to read the license file. > I

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-26 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 13:07:21 -0500 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is there a way in the new GLEP to say "never bother me with any license > bullcrap" ? i made sure the current check_license() function respected the > idea of "*" so that i can put this in my make.conf: > ACCEPT_LICE

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-26 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 18 November 2006 02:53, Marius Mauch wrote: > Anyone interested in this feature should review the attached version. i've come to the party a bit late ... i cant seem to divine the answer to my question from reading this thread and the GLEP and the bugzilla, so perhaps someone can exp

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 15:53 +0100, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > > RESTRICT="interactive" should be restricted to only the contents of > > the ebuild. ACCEPT_LICENSE="RTCW-ETEULA" emerge enemy-territory is > > *not* interactive, > > That's what I've missed then. I didn't realise that setting > ACCEPT_

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-22 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:03:08 -0500 Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 17:59 +0100, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > > Am I correct in thinking that the ACCEPT_LICENSE behaviour will just > > affect how portage calculates whether something can be installed or > > not (much l

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 01:10 +0100, Marien Zwart wrote: > On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 04:37:39PM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > Well, we specifically didn't allow a "*" setting because of this. > > Ah, I missed that. Thanks. > > > Perhaps we should make it simple and specify that no interactive li

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-19 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 12:13:33 -0800 Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:10:59 -0800 Donnie Berkholz | > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | > So you're saying that the X maintainers have more important | > | > things to do than fixing their ebu

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-19 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:10:59 -0800 Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > So you're saying that the X maintainers have more important things | > to do than fixing their ebuilds to follow policy? | | You keep saying it breaks policy but you've never actually cited a

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-19 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:10:59 -0800 Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > So you're saying that the X maintainers have more important things | > to do than fixing their ebuilds to follow policy? | | You keep saying it breaks policy but you've never actually cited any | policy it breaks.

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-19 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 13:49:12 -0800 Mike Doty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | The other option is to submit patches for X and KDE and Gnome to use | a unified license. At least in the X case, it's not that the patches | arn't welcome, it's that the maintainers have things mor

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-18 Thread Brian Harring
On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 08:05:03PM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Sunday 19 November 2006 06:25, Brian Harring wrote: > > The current default in portage however is that of ACCEPT_LICENSE=*; > > since portage doesn't yet filter on licenses, and since interactive > > ebuilds already exist, _that_ is

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-18 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 19 November 2006 06:25, Brian Harring wrote: > Left out that if it's unset, it should default to ACCEPT_LICENSE=* , > meaning no license filtering. [...] > > Backwards Compatibility > > === > > > > There should be no change to the user experience without the user > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-18 Thread Stephen P. Becker
> > And then create a KDE licence group, and a Gnome licence group, and > > so on? Remember that there are only a few X licences once you ignore > > copyright line differences, just as there are only a few KDE > > licences once you ignore copyright line differences. > > > The other option is to su

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 22:59:36 +0100 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | So no, there's no need to submit patches to the KDE team. I think the | same applies to GNOME, but I'll leave those who handle that to answer | by theirselves. Right. Gnome is also correct, despite having l

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 13:49:12 -0800 Mike Doty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | The other option is to submit patches for X and KDE and Gnome to use | a unified license. At least in the X case, it's not that the patches | arn't welcome, it's that the maintainers have things more important | to do than

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-18 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Saturday 18 November 2006 22:49, Mike Doty wrote: > The other option is to submit patches for X and KDE and Gnome to use a > unified license. Would like to precise that KDE team reports correctly as GPL-2 or LGPL-2.1 the licenses for every package. The only problem there is that there's no way

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-18 Thread Mike Doty
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 15:22:36 -0600 Mike Doty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 08:53:36 +0100 Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > wrote: | > | Anyone interested in this feature should review the attached | > | version. Unless there

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-18 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 01:25:57PM -0800, Brian Harring wrote: > >... Minor addendum here (dotting the i's as it were), but valid license names aren't actually defined anywhere; would suggest nailing down the exact rules of it. [a-Z][0-9]-_. looks to roughly cover it. ~harring pgp1L

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 15:22:36 -0600 Mike Doty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 08:53:36 +0100 Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > wrote: | > | Anyone interested in this feature should review the attached | > | version. Unless there are major objections (or

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-18 Thread Mike Doty
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 08:53:36 +0100 Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Anyone interested in this feature should review the attached version. | Unless there are major objections (or we find large problems in the | implementation) this will be merged in one of the next

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-18 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 08:53:36AM +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: > Anyone interested in this feature should review the attached version. > Unless there are major objections (or we find large problems in the > implementation) this will be merged in one of the next portage releases > (definitely not in

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 08:53:36 +0100 Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Anyone interested in this feature should review the attached version. | Unless there are major objections (or we find large problems in the | implementation) this will be merged in one of the next portage | releases (defin