On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 19:17:50 +0100 Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, 2 Jan 2014, Luis Ressel wrote: > > >> RESTRICT is somewhat complementary to LICENSE and cannot provide as > >> much information. Especially, RESTRICT="mirror" doesn't say under > >> what license the restricted pieces are, and doesn't allow for > >> ACCEPT_LICENSE filtering. > > > But is this detailed information really neccessary? The use-case is > > ensuring the legality of distfiles mirroring -- you're either > > allowed to do it nor not, the exact license doesn't matter here. > > This is not primarily about distfiles mirroring, about about giving > users a choice what distfiles they will accept on their systems (for > whatever reasons, e.g. legal or philosophical). Besides, not all users > are under the same legislation, which may affect their choice. Well, your subject line says "srcdist" ;). That's only possible if we enumerate every license in every distfile we distribute, which I don't think is a good idea. Or at least not on the basis of a theoretic user that might not actually exist. -- Ryan Hill psn: dirtyepic_sk gcc-porting/toolchain/wxwidgets @ gentoo.org 47C3 6D62 4864 0E49 8E9E 7F92 ED38 BD49 957A 8463
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