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 1DiYb7-0002zk-SG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:10:30 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j5FE8FtE002978; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:08:15 GMT Received: from smtp05.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (smtp.nuvox.net [64.89.70.9]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j5FE4JIa024131 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:04:19 GMT Received: from cgianelloni.nuvox.net (216.215.202.4.nw.nuvox.net [216.215.202.4]) by smtp05.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id j5FE5lu5023552 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:05:47 -0400 Received: by cgianelloni.nuvox.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:04:39 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about licenses From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1118835852.6572.5.camel@localhost> References: <87u0jzhnrh.fsf@veller.net> <1118835852.6572.5.camel@localhost> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-fJzZjwPc0CVAX+thqrRZ" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:04:39 -0400 Message-Id: <1118844279.14164.21.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 X-Archives-Salt: 52fdccdb-d09a-4722-a7b3-e8dcb60fc32d X-Archives-Hash: 279bf45f793f841a0a2c43ce53ff69a5 --=-fJzZjwPc0CVAX+thqrRZ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-fJzZjwPc0CVAX+thqrRZ 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 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCsDV3kT4lNIS36YERAmW0AJ9/2njmUhfJKcNS1BV16AWsIyAg8gCfdeub hflgCdrhlY7pNP152Sy73Yc= =pe5t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-fJzZjwPc0CVAX+thqrRZ-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list