Subject: Re: ${ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES.${packagename}}
To: None <tech-pkg@NetBSD.org>
From: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 02/06/2005 18:17:33
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005, Quentin Garnier wrote:
> > # I don't intend to make any commercial use of LAME.
> > ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES.lame= fee-based-commercial-use
>
> Packages don't usually come with several licences. I'd rather have
> something like:
>
> ACCEPT_LICENSE+= lame
No, that's not good enough, because a package's licence might change
from one version to another. I want a build failure if a package's
licence changes from one that I have reviewed to one that I have not
reviewed.
--apb (Alan Barrett)