From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about licenses
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:04:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1118844279.14164.21.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1118835852.6572.5.camel@localhost>
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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 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 needing to copy these files, as the
license is already specified in the ebuild and should be available in
$PORTDIR/licenses, so this is a redundancy.
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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-15 14:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-15 11:18 [gentoo-dev] Questions about licenses Torsten Veller
2005-06-15 11:31 ` Krzysiek Pawlik
2005-06-15 11:39 ` Jon Portnoy
2005-06-15 12:00 ` Krzysiek Pawlik
2005-06-15 12:14 ` Jon Portnoy
2005-06-15 12:29 ` Krzysiek Pawlik
2005-06-15 14:02 ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-06-15 14:07 ` Krzysiek Pawlik
2005-06-15 11:44 ` Patrick Lauer
2005-06-15 14:04 ` Chris Gianelloni [this message]
2005-06-15 16:26 ` Maurice van der Pot
2005-06-15 18:38 ` Chris Bainbridge
2005-06-15 19:06 ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-06-16 22:12 ` [gentoo-dev] " Torsten Veller
2005-06-16 23:06 ` Marius Mauch
2005-06-17 10:09 ` Chris Bainbridge
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