| Summary: | sys-apps/portage: warn verbosely about package license changes on upgrade | ||
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| Product: | Portage Development | Reporter: | Michał Górny <mgorny> |
| Component: | Core - Interface (emerge) | Assignee: | Portage team <dev-portage> |
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | sam |
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| See Also: |
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=372005 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=816312 |
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
I'd like to request adding information about package license changes to verbose build output, e.g. adding something like '{{ Sleepycat => AGPL-3 }}' for the sys-libs/db upgrade. Rationale: license changes sometimes surprise software developers, and if they involve changing to a more restrictive license, they can effectively cause user's local programs to violate the license terms. For example, if you made a GPL program using sys-libs/db, you can't upgrade to AGPL-3 db without relicensing your program first. A verbose information in emerge output (or even possibly a warning below depgraph) would certainly be better than letting it silently happen.