On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 10:04:44PM -0500, Jose Muniz wrote:
> hey all:
> 
> first off i'm from a solaris and freebsd background, just getting starting
> on netbsd.

(welcome!)

> ok... here's my problem: i wanted to install lyx from the pkgsrc, but i
> hit an error on make. basically:
> 
> xyz has an unacceptable license: fee-based-commercial-use.
> to build this package, add this line to your /etc/mk.conf:
> ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES+=fee-based-commercial-use
> 
> i made an /etc/mk.conf file with the ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES directive that
> the error asked me to put in.
> 
> however make still reports the ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES error when I try to
> install.  i looked up the man page for mk.conf and there doesn't seem to
> be any info about the ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES directive.

The only mention I've seen is at:

http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/packages.html#mk.conf

HTH

--jkl