set ENV["DATADEPS_ALWAYS_ACCEPT"] = true

[CarloLucibello]

Having to say "yes" each time seems just an annoyance.

I think this should be considered a breaking change.

[johnnychen94]

I disagree. We can't represent our users to agree on the terms. He should agree on the terms by himself, or set the environment by himself.

[johnnychen94]

A possible alternative to make the experience smoother is to really highlight the license note somewhere so that everyone knows it.

For instance, it can be put to https://juliaml.github.io/MLDatasets.jl/stable/#Installation with something like

!!! note "License"
    This package only provides a convenient API to read commonly used datasets from the internet. Make
    sure you follow the license requirement of the dataset you're trying to use.

[alecloudenback]

I'm trying to run some code on a remote machine and it's getting stuck at the step of saying "yes" to downloading the data. How can I say yes programmatically rather than via the REPL? I understand the view that the user should accept the license before downloading, but I'd like some way to not have to use the REPL to do so.

[CarloLucibello]

Just put

ENV["DATADEPS_ALWAYS_ACCEPT"] = true

in your julia code.