Peter Cech wrote:
What leads you to believe the license texts distributed in portage tree
are legaly binding with respect to the packages? Each packgage carries
(or at least should carry) its license embeded inside. In my
understanding, licanse pointers in ebuilds are purely informative and
allow you to check the terms of the license (and decide if the license
is acceptable) before you actually perform any legaly binding action
(like running 'emerge app-foo/bar').
Regards,
Peter Cech
Well, from the documentation, all I have to go on is:
"This variable specifies what license the program is covered under, i.e.
GPL-2, BSD, etc..."[1]
I interpret that as the actual license of the software. It's not made
clear that LICENSE points to a generalized representation (although I
find that solution much more rational) or that it points to the actual
software license.
It appears that the people who feel most comfortable with the current
solution are those who have been around a good deal of time, which would
indicate to me that the reason that things are done now was made a while
ago but never documented.
[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=1
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