On Thursday 27 November 2003 16:19, Luke-Jr wrote: > > Can we get some statistical data on this? > Since Portage as it is right now doesn't pay any attention to licenses, its > legality could be questioned (as with the games issue before?)
If you want a hand count, I do want to use non-free software, and I do want to read every non-free license before installing something. > > and if you choose to restrict > > yourself to only free software or other licensing scheme, you can make > > the necessary changes yourself. Otherwise you will have a ton of users > > asking "why can't i emerge package foo?", or filing bugs because of this, > > etc. > > If Portage displays a clear enough message, there shouldn't be a problem > with this... We could further reduce the effort needed by having a switch to portage to get it to interactively prompt the user to accept any outstanding licenses, and allow portage to update ACCEPT_LICENSES in the same way it updates the world file. -- Toby Dickenson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
