Dealing with a click-through license

[Randolph M. Fritz]

At some point, the license has to be shown and the question has to be
asked. Perhaps the way to do it is to have a separate small port that gets
license acceptance and store the result somewhere, and then have the main
portfile check for the acceptance.
-- 
Randolph M. Fritz || +1 206 659-8617 || rmfritz3 at gmail.com


On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 1:07 PM Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org> wrote:

> On 26.11.18 03:26, Randolph M. Fritz wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Even if the distfile cannot be downloaded, you could still write a
> Portfile, but users would be required to download the file manually.
>
> As an example, see the geoexpress-sdk port that does something similar:
>
>
> https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/b11b60aec24d59304043c28492741554e0e616e2/gis/geoexpress-sdk/Portfile
>
> Rainer
>
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