[Development] Repository Request: qt/licensing

[Stottlemyer, Brett (B.S.)]

On Thursday, May 24, 2018 12:48 AM, André Pönitz wrote:
> ... does not mean that I would necessarily appreciate the attempt to access network at arbitrary times ...

On Thursday, May 24, 2018 11:19 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Uh... not really. I use git while on the plane :-)

Fair points.  I tend to build/update QtBase only a few times around the new releases, and usually I build/update QtCreator at the same time.  Thus given the QtCreator code I referenced previously means those use cases/concerns are broken independent of my proposal.

Maybe a combination is possible, where the project files look in a common location.  If licheck isn't found, attempt to grab the file via https and put it there?  Or print the necessary `git clone` message to grab licheck and put it in the right spot, then error out?  Anything that avoids manual steps that are only found in the online documentation.

Brett

-----Original Message-----
From: André Pönitz <apoenitz at t-online.de> 
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2018 12:48 AM
To: Kai Koehne <Kai.Koehne at qt.io>
Cc: Stottlemyer, Brett (B.S.) <bstottle at ford.com>; Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>; development at qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Development] Repository Request: qt/licensing

On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 12:58:43PM +0000, Kai Koehne wrote:
> > -----Original Message----- [...] Can .pro files test for commercial 
> > vs. oss licenses?  If so, and you create a non- Qt project repo, 
> > couldn't some .pro in qtbase retrieve licheck, like QtCreator does
> > here: http://code.qt.io/cgit/qt-creator/qt-
> > creator.git/tree/qtcreator.pro#n123?
> > 
> > Is that an acceptable solution?  Seems like it would work here, 
> > although I think the time stamp generation and commercial licenses 
> > would need to be added to qtbase (I think).
> 
> Thanks, that's actually an interesting idea. Obvious downside is that 
> you need network access ... but you can argue that, if people are 
> using git, they most likely have it

I am not sure I got the context right here, but as a general remark:
"being in principle able to access network on demand, with permission, possibly restricted to certain times or other circumstances" does not mean that I would necessarily appreciate the attempt to access network at arbitrary times, in automated ways, possibly without my active knowledge and permission.

So I'd prefer a git checkout to be usable offline, completely, without usable network access or even probing.

Andre'