From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Which license?
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:09:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1146164971.25222.0.camel@cicada.nbk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.58.0604271419090.8377@ida.bway.net>
On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 14:21 -0400, A. Khattri wrote:
>
> Im working on an ebuild for a package and Im not sure what license to use.
> The package is Copyright Company "X" but has this underneath:
>
>
> ## This software may be freely copied, modified and redistributed
> ## without fee for non-commerical purposes provided that this license
> ## remains intact and unmodified with any distribution.
> ##
> ## There is no warranty or other guarantee of fitness of this software.
> ## It is provided solely "as is". The author(s) disclaim(s) all
> ## responsibility and liability with respect to this software's usage
> ## or its effect upon hardware, computer systems, other software, or
> ## anything else.
> ##
>
>
> Last time I looked, there were some 800 or so files in
> /usr/portage/license/ - so which one would I use?
I'd go for AS-IS.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-27 18:21 [gentoo-dev] Which license? A. Khattri
2006-04-27 18:50 ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-04-27 19:03 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-04-27 19:09 ` Albert Hopkins [this message]
2006-04-27 19:19 ` Tavis Ormandy
2006-04-27 19:32 ` Alin Nastac
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