From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.105.134.102] (helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DiWNo-0003zl-5A for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:48:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j5FBkmsd030760; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:46:48 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j5FBhPC2002273 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:43:25 GMT Received: from dsl-082-083-235-054.arcor-ip.net ([82.83.235.54] helo=[10.0.0.13]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DiWJZ-0000U9-EQ for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:44:13 +0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about licenses From: Patrick Lauer To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <87u0jzhnrh.fsf@veller.net> References: <87u0jzhnrh.fsf@veller.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-dtB7CejWLhv9lEKdMn10" Organization: Gentoo Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:44:12 +0200 Message-Id: <1118835852.6572.5.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 X-Archives-Salt: db7a8c57-0ccc-4746-8c63-35d633330587 X-Archives-Hash: 3958e6debeb5d5d3fff2f5a56f25afd4 --=-dtB7CejWLhv9lEKdMn10 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 13:18 +0200, Torsten Veller wrote: > Why do we add a license to the licenses/ dir? Because there should be an easy way to find licenses? And you can do "emerge search foo", then read the license and decide wether you want to install foo. > And in addition: When should a license be added to licenses/ ? When at least one ebuild uses a license that is not already there? > 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 mi= stakne, please) > There are over 3MB in nearly 500 files. How will those licenses be > classified if ACCEPT_LICENSES (GLEP 23) is implemented? I guess groups ... OSI approved, "free", commercial, ... > Does the language of the license matter? (selfhtml is in german) I think licenses in English are preferred, but if it's only licensed with a= german license ... > Aren't MIT and MetaKit and ... the same license? > Aren't X11 and cdegood and JamesClark and ... the same license? Maybe there's one paragraph changed - I haven't looked at them yet. > Should the licenses/ dir be cleaned? If by cleaned you mean unused licenses removed yes. If by cleaned you mean "reduced to the bare minimum" I'd say no. > (Should placeholders be used as in MIT?) >=20 > 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 > (Am i asking too many questions?=20 No ;-) > Sorry, but i have the feeling that > this whole license stuff is not useful atm and i don't see how we > can deal with the great number of files in the future.) I haven't seen this as a problem - it has worked quite well up to now. Your concerns are valid, but as long as nobosy offers an alternative for managing licenses, I wouldn't change our policy - doesn't seem broken to me. Patrick --=20 Stand still, and let the rest of the universe move --=-dtB7CejWLhv9lEKdMn10 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCsBSMqER3hOUoZM4RAtYcAJ4+Fr3OtZphMR/0Q5zZXEAFnROV/wCfd3gz PSS4XxFOLml/EwNRdoPh+ts= =YUbW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-dtB7CejWLhv9lEKdMn10-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list