[GRASS-dev] freetype on gentoo

[Stefán István]

csütörtök 24 augusztus 2006 11.46 dátummal Maciej Sieczka ezt írta:
> 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?

Yes, I know, I made this procedure also to get the libraries, but I think this 
doesn't prevent the grass gentoo package to have an opendwg useflag.

> 
> > 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.

Does anyone know who makes the Grass Gentoo ebuild?

Thanks,
Istvan