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34<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Title:</th><td class="field-body">Portage handling of ACCEPT_LICENSE</td> 276<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Title:</th><td class="field-body">Handling of ACCEPT_LICENSE</td>
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36<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Version:</th><td class="field-body">1.2</td> 278<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Version:</th><td class="field-body">1.5</td>
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38<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Last-Modified:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference" href="http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/proj/en/glep/glep-0023.txt?cvsroot=gentoo">2004/03/11 02:35:40</a></td> 280<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Last-Modified:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference" href="http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/proj/en/glep/glep-0023.txt?cvsroot=gentoo">2006/11/19 22:46:27</a></td>
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40<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Jason Stubbs &lt;jstubbs&#32;&#97;t&#32;gentoo.org&gt;,</td> 282<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Jason Stubbs &lt;jstubbs&#32;&#97;t&#32;gentoo.org&gt;, Marius Mauch &lt;genone&#32;&#97;t&#32;gentoo.org&gt;</td>
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48<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Created:</th><td class="field-body">9-Mar-2004</td> 290<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Created:</th><td class="field-body">9-Mar-2004</td>
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50<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Post-History:</th><td class="field-body">8-Mar-2004 10-Mar-2004</td> 292<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Post-History:</th><td class="field-body">8-Mar-2004 10-Mar-2004 25-Oct-2004 18-Nov-2006 19-Nov-2006</td>
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55<div class="contents topic" id="contents"> 297<div class="contents topic">
56<p class="topic-title"><a name="contents">Contents</a></p> 298<p class="topic-title first"><a id="contents" name="contents">Contents</a></p>
57<ul class="simple"> 299<ul class="simple">
58<li><a class="reference" href="#abstract" id="id5" name="id5">Abstract</a></li> 300<li><a class="reference" href="#abstract" id="id5" name="id5">Abstract</a></li>
301<li><a class="reference" href="#status-update" id="id6" name="id6">Status Update</a></li>
59<li><a class="reference" href="#motivation" id="id6" name="id6">Motivation</a></li> 302<li><a class="reference" href="#motivation" id="id7" name="id7">Motivation</a></li>
60<li><a class="reference" href="#specification" id="id7" name="id7">Specification</a><ul> 303<li><a class="reference" href="#specification" id="id8" name="id8">Specification</a><ul>
61<li><a class="reference" href="#ebuild-license-variable" id="id8" name="id8">Ebuild LICENSE Variable</a></li> 304<li><a class="reference" href="#ebuild-license-variable" id="id9" name="id9">Ebuild LICENSE Variable</a></li>
62<li><a class="reference" href="#license-groups" id="id9" name="id9">License Groups</a></li> 305<li><a class="reference" href="#license-groups" id="id10" name="id10">License Groups</a></li>
63<li><a class="reference" href="#accept-license" id="id10" name="id10">ACCEPT_LICENSE</a></li> 306<li><a class="reference" href="#accept-license" id="id11" name="id11">ACCEPT_LICENSE</a></li>
64<li><a class="reference" href="#emerge-behaviour" id="id11" name="id11">Emerge Behaviour</a></li> 307<li><a class="reference" href="#behaviour" id="id12" name="id12">Behaviour</a></li>
65</ul> 308</ul>
66</li> 309</li>
67<li><a class="reference" href="#rationale" id="id12" name="id12">Rationale</a></li> 310<li><a class="reference" href="#rationale" id="id13" name="id13">Rationale</a></li>
68<li><a class="reference" href="#reference-implementation" id="id13" name="id13">Reference Implementation</a></li> 311<li><a class="reference" href="#reference-implementation" id="id14" name="id14">Reference Implementation</a></li>
69<li><a class="reference" href="#backwards-compatibility" id="id14" name="id14">Backwards Compatibility</a></li> 312<li><a class="reference" href="#backwards-compatibility" id="id15" name="id15">Backwards Compatibility</a></li>
70<li><a class="reference" href="#references" id="id15" name="id15">References</a></li> 313<li><a class="reference" href="#references" id="id16" name="id16">References</a></li>
71<li><a class="reference" href="#copyright" id="id16" name="id16">Copyright</a></li> 314<li><a class="reference" href="#copyright" id="id17" name="id17">Copyright</a></li>
72</ul> 315</ul>
73</div> 316</div>
74<div class="section" id="abstract"> 317<div class="section">
75<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id5" name="abstract">Abstract</a></h1> 318<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id5" id="abstract" name="abstract">Abstract</a></h1>
76<p>Currently, every ebuild in the portage tree is required to have a valid 319<p>Currently, every ebuild in the main gentoo repository is required to have a
77LICENSE entry. However, the syntax of this entry is not officially 320valid LICENSE entry. However, the syntax of this entry is not officially
78defined and the entry itself is only used when outputting package 321defined and the entry itself is only used when outputting package
79details.</p> 322details.</p>
80</div> 323</div>
81<div class="section" id="motivation"> 324<div class="section">
325<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id6" id="status-update" name="status-update">Status Update</a></h1>
326<p>Repoman has been updated to check for the LICENSE syntax.
327A development portage branch with support for ACCEPT_LICENSE
328and license groups exists.</p>
329</div>
330<div class="section">
82<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id6" name="motivation">Motivation</a></h1> 331<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id7" id="motivation" name="motivation">Motivation</a></h1>
83<p>Many users wish to regulate the software they install with regards to 332<p>Many users wish to regulate the software they install with regards to
84licenses for various reasons <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id3" id="id1" name="id1">[1]</a>. Some want a system free of any 333licenses for various reasons <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id3" id="id1" name="id1">[1]</a>. Some want a system free of any
85software that is not OSI-approved; others are simply curious as to what 334software that is not OSI-approved; others are simply curious as to what
86licenses they are implicitly accepting.</p> 335licenses they are implicitly accepting.</p>
87<p>Furthermore, some software requires that a user interactively accept its 336<p>Furthermore, some software requires that a user interactively accept its
88license for its author's to consider it legally binding. This is 337license for its author's to consider it legally binding. This is
89currently implemented using <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">eutils.eclass</span></tt>.</p> 338currently implemented using <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">eutils.eclass</span></tt>.</p>
90</div> 339</div>
91<div class="section" id="specification"> 340<div class="section">
92<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id7" name="specification">Specification</a></h1> 341<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id8" id="specification" name="specification">Specification</a></h1>
93<div class="section" id="ebuild-license-variable"> 342<div class="section">
94<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id8" name="ebuild-license-variable">Ebuild LICENSE Variable</a></h2> 343<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id9" id="ebuild-license-variable" name="ebuild-license-variable">Ebuild LICENSE Variable</a></h2>
95<p>Most ebuilds are for software which is released under a single license. 344<p>Most ebuilds are for software which is released under a single license.
96In these cases, the current LICENSE variable can remain as is. For 345In these cases, the current LICENSE variable can remain as is. For
97example:</p> 346example:</p>
98<pre class="literal-block"> 347<pre class="literal-block">
99LICENSE=&quot;single-license&quot; 348LICENSE=&quot;single-license&quot;
100</pre> 349</pre>
101<p>However, there are several ebuilds for software which is released under 350<p>However, there are several ebuilds for software which is released under
102several licenses, of which the user must accept one, some or all <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id4" id="id2" name="id2">[2]</a>. 351several licenses, of which the user must accept one, some or all <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id4" id="id2" name="id2">[2]</a>.
103To complicate this, some ebuilds include optional components which fall 352To complicate this, some ebuilds include optional components which fall
104under a different license.</p> 353under a different license.</p>
105<p>To accomodate these cases, LICENSE syntax should accomodate all 354<p>To accomodate these cases, LICENSE syntax should accomodate all
106functionality offered by a DEPEND string. To keep things simple, this 355functionality offered by a DEPEND string. To keep things simple, this
107GLEP proposes that the syntax be identical. For example:</p> 356GLEP proposes that the syntax be identical. For example:</p>
108<pre class="literal-block"> 357<pre class="literal-block">
109LICENSE=&quot;mandatory-license 358LICENSE=&quot;mandatory-license
110 || ( choosable-licence1 chooseable-license-2 ) 359 || ( choosable-licence1 chooseable-license-2 )
111 useflag? ( optional-component-license )&quot; 360 useflag? ( optional-component-license )&quot;
112</pre> 361</pre>
362<p>License names may contain [a-zA-Z0-9] (english alphanumeric characters),
363_ (underscore), - (dash), . (dot) and + (plus sign).</p>
113</div> 364</div>
114<div class="section" id="license-groups"> 365<div class="section">
115<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id9" name="license-groups">License Groups</a></h2> 366<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id10" id="license-groups" name="license-groups">License Groups</a></h2>
116<p>Almost all users are willing to install any software that is 367<p>Almost all users are willing to install any software that is
117FSF-approved. Other users are willing to install any software and 368FSF-approved. Other users are willing to install any software and
118implicitly accept its license. To this end, portage will also need to 369implicitly accept its license. To this end, implementations will also
119handle grouping of licenses.</p> 370need to handle grouping of licenses.</p>
120<p>At a minimum, there needs to be the groups <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">GPL-COMPATIBLE</span></tt>, 371<p>At a minimum, there needs to be the groups <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">GPL-COMPATIBLE</span></tt>,
121<tt class="literal"><span class="pre">FSF-APPROVED</span></tt>, <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">OSI-APPROVED</span></tt> and <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">NON-INTERACTIVE</span></tt>. 372<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">FSF-APPROVED</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">OSI-APPROVED</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">NON-MUST-HAVE-READ</span></tt>.
122<tt class="literal"><span class="pre">NON-INTERACTIVE</span></tt> licenses are those that don't require interactive 373<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">NON-MUST-HAVE-READ</span></tt> licenses are those that don't require manual
123acceptance for to be considered legally binding. This is the current 374acceptance for to be considered legally binding. This is the current
124behaviour of portage.</p> 375behaviour of portage.</p>
376<p>These groups are defined in a new file <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">license_groups</span></tt> in
377the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">profiles</span></tt> subdirectory of the tree (or overlays).
378Details of handling groups defined in overlays is implementation dependent.</p>
379<p>The format of this file is</p>
380<pre class="literal-block">
381&lt;groupname&gt; &lt;license1&gt; &lt;license2&gt; ... &lt;licenseN&gt;
382</pre>
383<p>Also any line starting with # is ignored and may be used for comments.
384Group names use the same syntax as normal license names. Also license groups
385may contain other groups.
386License groups may not contain negated elements, so a group</p>
387<pre class="literal-block">
388mygroup foo -bar -bla
389</pre>
390<p>is illegal.</p>
125</div> 391</div>
126<div class="section" id="accept-license"> 392<div class="section">
127<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id10" name="accept-license">ACCEPT_LICENSE</a></h2> 393<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id11" id="accept-license" name="accept-license">ACCEPT_LICENSE</a></h2>
128<p>This GLEP proposes that a user be able to explicitly accept or decline 394<p>This GLEP proposes that a user be able to explicitly accept or decline
129licenses by editing a new variable <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">ACCEPT_LICENSE</span></tt> in 395licenses by editing a new variable <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ACCEPT_LICENSE</span></tt> in
130<tt class="literal"><span class="pre">/etc/make.conf</span></tt>. Again, to keep things simple, the syntax should be 396<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/etc/make.conf</span></tt>. Again, to keep things simple, the syntax should be
131similar to that of other incrementals. For example:</p> 397similar to that of other incrementals. For example:</p>
132<pre class="literal-block"> 398<pre class="literal-block">
133ACCEPT_LICENSE=&quot;-* accepted-license -declined-license&quot; 399ACCEPT_LICENSE=&quot;-* accepted-license -declined-license&quot;
134</pre> 400</pre>
135<p>As an extension, <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">ACCEPT_LICENSE</span></tt> must also support <a class="reference" href="#license-groups">license groups</a>. 401<p>As an extension, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ACCEPT_LICENSE</span></tt> must also support <a class="reference" href="#license-groups">license groups</a>.
136This GLEP proposes that the license group be prepended by the special 402This GLEP proposes that the license group be prepended by the special
137character &quot;<tt class="literal"><span class="pre">&#64;</span></tt>&quot;. For example:</p> 403character &quot;<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&#64;</span></tt>&quot;. For example:</p>
138<pre class="literal-block"> 404<pre class="literal-block">
139ACCEPT_LICENSE=&quot;-* &#64;FSF-APPROVED&quot; 405ACCEPT_LICENSE=&quot;-* &#64;FSF-APPROVED&quot;
140</pre> 406</pre>
407<p>License groups may be negated with the result that all elements of that group
408are also negated.</p>
409<p>Portage will also offer a package.license facility to offer this functionality
410on a per-package base (analog to package.keywords), other implementations may
411implement such a facility differently or not at all.</p>
141</div> 412</div>
142<div class="section" id="emerge-behaviour"> 413<div class="section">
143<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id11" name="emerge-behaviour">Emerge Behaviour</a></h2> 414<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id12" id="behaviour" name="behaviour">Behaviour</a></h2>
144<p>At a minimum, emerge must handle unaccepted licenses the same way that 415<p>Unaccepted licenses will be treated like any other masked package, that is
145it handles blockers. That is, with the --pretend flag the 416the user interface of an implementation will display a message listing any
146not-yet-accepted license should be listed in the output. Without the 417license that has to be accepted before the package can be merged with a
147--pretend flag, emerge should stop before any software is installed.</p> 418pointer to the exact license text.</p>
148<p>This GLEP proposes that, unlike blockers, dependencies for software 419<p>Past versions of this document proposed to handle license-masked packages
149should be checked regardless of license acceptance. Doing so will allow 420like blockers, but this would be inconsistent with other visibility
150the user to review all necessary licenses before initiating an actual 421filters as well as the current blocker system (as a blocker affects two
151emerge.</p> 422packages) and be more complicated to implement.</p>
152<p>It is also proposed that the --ask option will display an unaccepted
153license and ask for acceptance, but not update any configuration files
154at this stage. Finally, the --verbose option should also list the
155licenses accepted for each package.</p>
156</div> 423</div>
157</div> 424</div>
158<div class="section" id="rationale"> 425<div class="section">
159<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id12" name="rationale">Rationale</a></h1> 426<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id13" id="rationale" name="rationale">Rationale</a></h1>
160<p>An implementation of this proposal should make it easy for users wishing 427<p>An implementation of this proposal should make it easy for users wishing
161to regulate their software without affecting those that don't.</p> 428to regulate their software without affecting those that don't.</p>
162</div> 429</div>
163<div class="section" id="reference-implementation"> 430<div class="section">
164<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id13" name="reference-implementation">Reference Implementation</a></h1> 431<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id14" id="reference-implementation" name="reference-implementation">Reference Implementation</a></h1>
165<p>TODO</p> 432<p>Available in portage svn repository under main/branches/license-masking</p>
166</div> 433</div>
167<div class="section" id="backwards-compatibility"> 434<div class="section">
168<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id14" name="backwards-compatibility">Backwards Compatibility</a></h1> 435<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id15" id="backwards-compatibility" name="backwards-compatibility">Backwards Compatibility</a></h1>
169<p>There should be no change to the user experience without the user 436<p>There should be no change to the user experience without the user
170explicitly choosing to do so. This mandates that the 437explicitly choosing to do so. This mandates that the
171configuration variable be named <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">ACCEPT_LICENSE</span></tt> as some users may 438configuration variable be named <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ACCEPT_LICENSE</span></tt> as some users may
172already have it set due to ebuilds using <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">eutil.eclass</span></tt>'s 439already have it set due to ebuilds using <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">eutil.eclass</span></tt>'s
173implementation. It also mandates that the default <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">ACCEPT_LICENSE</span></tt> be 440implementation. It also mandates that the default <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ACCEPT_LICENSE</span></tt> be
174set to <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">&#64;NON-INTERACTIVE</span></tt>.</p> 441set to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&#64;NON-MUST-HAVE-READ</span></tt> in the main gentoo repository as implementations
442are not required to provide an internal default.</p>
175</div> 443</div>
176<div class="section" id="references"> 444<div class="section">
177<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id15" name="references">References</a></h1> 445<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id16" id="references" name="references">References</a></h1>
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181<tr><td class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id1" name="id3">[1]</a></td><td>Gentoo Linux Bug 17367 449<tr><td class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id1" name="id3">[1]</a></td><td>Gentoo Linux Bug 17367
182(<a class="reference" href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17367">http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17367</a>)</td></tr> 450(<a class="reference" href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17367">http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17367</a>)</td></tr>
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185<table class="footnote" frame="void" id="id4" rules="none"> 453<table class="docutils footnote" frame="void" id="id4" rules="none">
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188<tr><td class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id2" name="id4">[2]</a></td><td>Gentoo Linux Bug 34146 456<tr><td class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id2" name="id4">[2]</a></td><td>Gentoo Linux Bug 34146
189(<a class="reference" href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34146">http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34146</a>)</td></tr> 457(<a class="reference" href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34146">http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34146</a>)</td></tr>
190</tbody> 458</tbody>
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192</div> 460</div>
193<div class="section" id="copyright"> 461<div class="section">
194<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id16" name="copyright">Copyright</a></h1> 462<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id17" id="copyright" name="copyright">Copyright</a></h1>
195<p>This document has been placed in the public domain.</p> 463<p>This document has been placed in the public domain.</p>
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