[GRASS-dev] freetype on gentoo

[Maciej Sieczka]

Stefán István napisa?(a):
> csütörtök 24 augusztus 2006 10.39 dátummal Maciej Sieczka ezt írta:
>> Stefán István napisa?(a):
>>
>>> 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?

> doesn't mean re-distributing the software. It only makes simplier to install 
> it, and makes possible for other ebuilds to know if these libraries are 
> installed or not.
> But I think that adding an opendwg use flag for grass ebuild doesn't even mean 
> to have to be an ebuild for opendwg too. Can't  it work so that if the user 
> specifies the opendwg useflag for the grass ebuild, you simply add the 
> appropriate switchies to the configure script, assuming that the libraries 
> are installed on the system already?

I'm no Gentoo user, dunno. Just wanted to clearup details about Open
Design licensing.

Maciek