On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 07:35:29PM +0100, Jesper Louis Andersen wrote: >For each license type, there is a knob. The knob could normally be >interactive, yielding the exact same behaviour as now. But if an >appropriate ACCEPT_LICENSE_FOO=Yes is found in make.conf, then the >user has read and accepted that particular license type once and for >all.
How does this handle click-through agreements where you have to tick a box to agree to the license before the vendor will release the source code? And Sun requires you to login as well. >The downside is that this requires a considerable amount of work and >thought. What should happen when the license changes, for instance. If a vendor has gone to the effort of implementing a click-through license and the FreeBSD Project implements a tool to bypass it then I would expect that the vendor would become somewhat annoyed. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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