Dear po...@-mailinglist, I noticed during using gentoo linux that gentoo (and some others) store a copy of the license file a programm refers to at the local HDD.
By this I mean that if 30 packages are GPLed the GPL gets installed one time at the HDD. I am unsure about the OpenBSD Port-System related to this. As I did "find /usr -name *GPL*" only one file was found (installed by qt3 in /usr/local/share/doc/qt3/LICENSE.GPL). Another example for the lgpl would be /usr/local/share/gtk-doc/html/bonobo-activation/lgpl.html. I am unsure if that (even I am no friend of the GPL) confirms to the GPL or other licenses ports/packages are licensed under. Would it propably make more sense to may save each license just once? I think specialy embedded-devices may would profit. Normal computers have enought diskspace but even if that's true I am unsure if it's ok to may not intall a licensefile and if that is ok with the GPL/LGPL and/or other licenses. Kind regards, Sebastian
