On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 05:54, Erik Swanson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 02:33, donnie berkholz wrote: > > I think we should accept all the licenses by default except the ones for > > which the ACCEPT_LICENSE variable originally existed (the id games ones), > > since users must be forced to read and agree to those. This would keep the > > change seamless for the user unless said user wishes to change things. > > As a user, I'd prefer if only OSI-approved licenses were accepted by > default. This also seems like it'd be most in keeping with the Gentoo > Social Contract.
As the developer whom was first bitten by the licensing issues, I would have to agree. Only the "free" licenses should be accepted by default. However, I also think that some form of logic and code needs to be added to portage to add better support for this variable. I think that once a user has accepted the license, it should be added to his list of accepted licenses automatically. I understand that this isn't something that would happen overnight, but it is definitely something that should happen as far as I am concerned. -- Chris Gianelloni Developer, Gentoo Linux Games Team Is your power animal a pengiun?
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
