[GRASS-dev] freetype on gentoo

[Glynn Clements]

Maciej Sieczka wrote:

> >>> I understand this, but I think an ebuild for opendwg could be made. There 
> > are 
> >>> ebuilds for other commercial stuffs also, with the fetch restricted flag.
> >> I don't think it's possible. Please look at Open Design site for license
> >> details. Each eventuall user must *sign* an agreement with Open Design
> >> Alliance to be allowed to use their software and nobody is allowed to
> >> re-distribute their software in either source or binary form. The only
> >> "free" thing about OpenDWG/DGN is that it costs no money, in it's
> >> Associate Membership form.
> > 
> > Yes, but making an ebuild which install the libraries only if the user has 
> > downloaded it before (and downloading means also signing the agreement) 
> 
> Not in case of Open Design software. See their site. You have to fax or
> email them the agreement whith your hand-written signature. Then you get
> a login+pass to download the software. Neat, isn't it?

That doesn't preclude the possibility of having an ebuild for it. E.g. 
the quake4-data ebuild has an empty SRC_URI, and a src_install()
method which just copies files from the DVD.

Also, even if you don't have an ebuild for OpenDWG, you can still have
a USE flag for it in the GRASS ebuild; you just lose the dependency
management.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>