| Summary: | GLEP 23 is not consistent with ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" used by portage | ||
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| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | Zac Medico <zmedico> |
| Component: | Other | Assignee: | Licenses team <licenses> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | betelgeuse, ferringb, jer |
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| URL: | http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_d5c1e7285399ebc27a74bdd02cb4d037.xml | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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Description
Zac Medico
2010-01-28 15:14:03 UTC
It would be trivial to define "NON-MUST-HAVE-READ * -@EULA" in license_groups. However, I'm not fond of the -@EULA negative list. It would be much better to have a positive list of licenses that have actually been checked. Well, other thing, and the ticket left off... incrementals used here aren't consistent w/ normal incrementals (the real incompatibility w/ g23). Specifically, think through USE flags and other bits- you can do '-*', but you sure as hell can't do '*'; yet make.globals is using exactly that for ACCEPT_LICENSE. As I mentioned in #-dev, pkgcore now supports this, and paludis doesn't support ACCEPT_LICENSE from portage configuration so right now it's not hurting anything, but the spec is inconsistant w/ the incrementals in use here and needs updating or reverting of the current '*' usage. (In reply to comment #1) > However, I'm not fond of the -@EULA negative list. It would be much better to > have a positive list of licenses that have actually been checked. The idea behind "* -@EULA" is that it's supposed to be essentially equivalent to @NON-MUST-HAVE-READ except that you only have to explicitly define the smaller @EULA set. The @NON-MUST-HAVE-READ set would contain almost all licenses and therefore might be a little more annoying to maintain than the smaller @EULA set. Is this still an issue, or can this bug be closed? A "status update" section was added to the GLEP some time ago: "Portage now handles ACCEPT_LICENSE and license groups, with NON-MUST HAVE-READ's role handled by @EULA." https://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?title=GLEP%3A23&type=revision&diff=99051&oldid=99047 Looks good. Thanks! |