At some point, the license has to be shown and the question has to be asked. Perhaps the way to do it is to have a separate small port that gets license acceptance and store the result somewhere, and then have the main portfile check for the acceptance. -- Randolph M. Fritz || +1 206 659-8617 || [email protected]
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 1:07 PM Rainer Müller <[email protected]> wrote: > On 26.11.18 03:26, Randolph M. Fritz wrote: > > No, you can download it. The license is an old BSD license, so it's > > pretty good, but users are required to read and accept it. Is there any > > way to accommodate this, or do I simply have to say that we can't > > distribute a portfile for the system? > > Even if the distfile cannot be downloaded, you could still write a > Portfile, but users would be required to download the file manually. > > As an example, see the geoexpress-sdk port that does something similar: > > > https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/b11b60aec24d59304043c28492741554e0e616e2/gis/geoexpress-sdk/Portfile > > Rainer >
