W dniu 27.08.2012 18:01, Danilo Šegan pisze:
Hi John,
У нед, 26. 08 2012. у 17:15 -0600, John Rigby пише:
Probably related or same issue. On the old site I was able to
download hwpacks with for example:
wget -q -k --no-cookies --header 'Cookie: redirectlicensephp=200'
http://oldsnapshots.linaro.org/precise/hwpacks/lt-snowball/latest/hwpack_linaro-lt-snowball_20120815-254_armhf_supported.tar.gz
This no longer works and I get the license acceptance page instead.
We have provided a script which can download stuff for you in
lp:linaro-license-protection (license_protected_file_downloader inside
tests/ directory - should be moved to scripts/ though).
This has been present for a while now, and has been a recommended way to
download binaries from snapshots.l.o. (Or, if you are doing this from a
static IP, we've got support for allowing that through if it's an
automated service [we do that for eg. validation.linaro.org].)
We will look into providing a nicer API, but until we do, any interface
we've got is going to be unstable and internal.
IMHO this is utter lunacy, is there any oversight on how we do this?
If we offer both the "protected", click through, EULA, downloads and the
tools to download them without seeing any license then I cannot see how
this is any more legally fine than just ignoring the whole damn mess.
The stuff we are doing here feels like DRM but it is even more insane as
we are the senders and recipients and we _still_ cannot get it right!
Maybe it's time to write an RFC on the "eula compliance" bit, get a new
HTTP header defined, offer a patch for wget and couple of other tools
and not reinvent the download tools over and over.
Frustrated
ZK
PS: In Linaro we _wrote_ code that generates, displays, enforces, avoids
and side-steps licenses. We have scripts that send magic cookies. We
have tools that click or type "I ACCEPT". I wonder how much time was
wasted on this, instead of, say, writing better kernel code, or LAVA, or
whatever...
--
Zygmunt Krynicki
Linaro Validation Team
s/Validation/Android/
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