Dealing with a click-through license

[Randolph M. Fritz]

No, you can download it. The license is an old BSD license, so it's pretty
good, but users are required to read and accept it. Is there any way to
accommodate this, or do I simply have to say that we can't distribute a
portfile for the system?

(Sorry for the double post, Ryan. Someday I will remember to click "reply
all" when responding to a MacPorts post, but that day is not today.)
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Randolph M. Fritz || +1 206 659-8617 || rmfritz3 at gmail.com


On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 12:05 AM Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>
wrote:

>
>
> On Nov 24, 2018, at 19:44, Randolph M. Fritz wrote:
>
> > It's Radiance. It is hard to change, perhaps not possible at all. Is
> there any way MacPorts can accommodate this, perhaps as a source-only port?
> >
> > What do people think?
>
>
> You are referring to a software project whose web site makes you agree to
> a license agreement before offering you a download file?
>
> If so, there are several possibilities. Of course MacPorts cannot deal
> with such a multistep download situation, so try to discover whether it can
> be circumvented. For example, if you manually fill out the form, and you
> get the file, you can see what URL the file was downloaded from (by getting
> info on it in the Finder, for example). Can you download the file using
> curl on the command line using that same URL, without having completed the
> form? If so, you can use that URL in the Portfile. Or, now that you know
> the filename, can you find the same filename hosted elsewhere on the
> Internet? If so, and you've verified the checksums of the file at its
> original file and at the alternate location are identical, you can use that
> alternate URL in the Portfile.
>
> I Googled "radiance download" and found a download link that was not
> encumbered by a click-though form, but maybe I found a different "radiance"
> than the one you're talking about,.
>
>
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