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