On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Alistair Crooks wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 10:42:01PM +0000, Jason Beegan wrote:
> > >
> > I'm in favour of getting rid of the ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES setting
> > altogether.
>
> If you can provide an alternative framework to alert the person who
> installs the package to the "non-standard" licence, then I'm all for
> it.  If it's merely a copout "I don't care what the licence says",
> then, most definitely, I'm not.

There are no _standard_ licenses (licences). Well, maybe one or two,
but authors are free to vary, and they do. I was OK with the old
system, where we made judgements about which broad category to place
any particular license in. IMHO, it is pretty silly to have to set a
variable in ${MAKECONF} for every single package, which is where we
seem to be heading.


Frederick