On 28/08/2018 00:46, Michael Mol wrote: > I can say that if the licenses are habitually misidentified, I could not use > Gentoo's portage tree in my job without extensive and ongoing revalidation of > the license metadata. > > There are, in fact, automated tools for advising about the license > disposition > of these types of things, examining source files for unfortunate edits and > variants and flagging them, etc. It might be an interesting task at some > point > to point some of these tools at portage, look for incorrect metadata and file > bug reports. > > Not suggesting this is a worthwhile approach up front, but it might be a > useful tool in the future for dealing with license metadata quality as a > chronic issue. (Which, in turn, is useful for commercial consumption and > participation.)
Given the reality of how open source project works, I believe it's up to people who care/need this most to do such work in Gentoo. From what I see, nobody would be opposed to _someone_ making the metadata more precise. On the other hand, I sense most people don't see enough benefit to sign up for such work themselves - which I totally understand. Paweł
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