Why do we add a license to the licenses/ dir?
And in addition: When should a license be added to licenses/ ?
Do we only add those licenses to define valid names for the LICENSE
variable?
There are over 3MB in nearly 500 files. How will those licenses be
classified if ACCEPT_LICENSES (GLEP 23) is
Torsten Veller wrote:
Why do we add a license to the licenses/ dir?
;)
Does the language of the license matter? (selfhtml is in german)
IMVHO: yes. I don't understand German, but English yes.
Aren't MIT and MetaKit and ... the same license?
Aren't X11 and cdegood and JamesClark and ... the
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
Jon Portnoy wrote:
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
Done: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96173
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On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 13:31 +0200, Krzysiek Pawlik wrote:
Torsten Veller wrote:
Why do we add a license to the licenses/ dir?
;)
Does the language of the license matter? (selfhtml is in german)
IMVHO: yes. I don't understand German, but English yes.
Aren't MIT and MetaKit and ...
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 13:44 +0200, Patrick Lauer wrote:
Do we only add those licenses to define valid names for the LICENSE
variable?
AFAIK the license variable is not really used (someone correct me if I'm
mistakne, please)
It is used by some games ebuilds, for sure.
What about all
Chris Gianelloni wrote:
Symlink? If MIT == MetaKit, then:
ln -s MIT MetaKit
CVS doesn't allow symlinks
Ouch... right :) Forgot about that.
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On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:04:39AM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
What about all these /usr/share/doc/*/COPYING* files? Are they
necessary if all licenses are in licenses/ ?
See first point. You want to read the license _before_ installing stuff
Actually, I can see the point in not
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 18:38 +, Chris Bainbridge wrote:
On 15/06/05, Maurice van der Pot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:04:39AM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
What about all these /usr/share/doc/*/COPYING* files? Are they
necessary if all licenses are in
