On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 02:00:57PM +0200, Krzysiek Pawlik wrote: > Jon Portnoy wrote: > >>Symlink? If MIT == MetaKit, then: > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >>ln -s MIT MetaKit > > I don't know about this specific case but generally speaking licenses > > that're similar in language and intent have very small (often cosmetic) > > differences; if there is even the slightest difference it (legally) > > qualifies as a different license and probably really should be included > > separately to be safe > > Exactly my point :) I've looked at MIT and MetaKit and: > > +Copyright (c) 1996-2001 Jean-Claude Wippler > -Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders> > > Except formatting and above diff theye are identical. >
You're right; chances are this is a mistake on the part of whoever wrote/committed the MetaKit ebuild, it probably had a 'COPYING' file and whoever reviewed it didn't recognize the MIT license. File a bug Either way the point still stands as far as licenses in general go 8) -- Jon Portnoy avenj/irc.freenode.net -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
