License Acceptance

Starting with Chef Client 15 users are required to accept the Chef EULA 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 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.