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diff --git a/docs/dev/license_acceptance.md b/docs/dev/license_acceptance.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..bb6e8a4e07 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/dev/license_acceptance.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +# License Acceptance + +Starting with Chef Client 15 users are required to accept the [Chef +EULA](https://www.chef.io/end-user-license-agreement/) to use the Chef Software distribution. This document aims to +explain how the `license-acceptance` gem and the `chef` gem interact. + +The overall goal is that the license acceptance flow is invoked as early as possible in the binary (EG, `chef-client`) +execution. Failure to accept the license causes the binary to immediately exit with code `172`. + +For an explanation of how this is achieved please see the [Ruby +README](https://github.com/chef/license-acceptance/tree/master/components/ruby) in the license-acceptance repo. For an +overall view of how the license-acceptance gem works, its specification, how marker files are stored, etc. please see +the [repo README](https://github.com/chef/license-acceptance). |