[Nix-dev] Re: Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r23513 - in nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs: applications/audio/abcde development/libraries/id3lib top-level

[Evgeny Egorochkin]

On Tuesday 31 August 2010 09:29:39 Yury G. Kudryashov wrote:
> Marc Weber wrote:
> >> What do you think?
> > 
> > Reading the wiki it seems to be a risk to distribute binaries of lame.
> > For my personal use I don't care too much.
> > 
> > No matter what you do I think at least a pointer to the issue should be
> > added.
> > 
> > If it is a legal issue we could add an assertion as well and a config
> > option ensuring every user has to read the comment .. (INAL)
> 
> Every user from USA and some other countries. AFAIR, software patents are
> not legal in EU.
> 
> If you'll add such assertion, please add config option "I don't care about
> software patents".

If it's a broad category of issues, you can either add a flag as a package 
parameter named like legalInUSA or add something to license metadata? Either 
way requiring users to install dependencies manually is not a good thing if it 
can be avoided.
-- 
Evgeny