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Re: modified-bsd license?



On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 04:34:49PM +0000, John Klos wrote:
> I'm now thoroughly confused. Now it is MANDATORY for people to have  
> ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES+=modified-bsd in /etc/mk.conf in order to use pkgsrc?
>
> ERROR: This package has set PKG_FAIL_REASON:
> ERROR: pkg_install-20090528 has an unacceptable license: modified-bsd.
> ERROR:     To view the license, enter "/usr/bin/make show-license".
> ERROR:     To indicate acceptance, add this line to /etc/mk.conf:
> ERROR:     ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES+=modified-bsd
>
> What the hell? Who thought it was a good idea to do this?

My guess is that you set ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES in /etc/mk.conf with "="
instead of "+=".

modified-bsd of course is included in the default-accept licenses, see
pkgsrc/mk/licenses.mk.
 Thomas


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