From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FZBvt-00075x-Po for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 19:13:46 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k3RJDCxv030582; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 19:13:12 GMT Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com (out3.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.27]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k3RJ9Ob4008694 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 19:09:24 GMT Received: from frontend2.internal (frontend2.internal [10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F2C2D4C6C8 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:09:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by frontend2.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:08:36 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: NVtQmCdONM7381RJX3vEf3f59ksgnAvGACnI2kRJTb+t 1146164916 Received: from flbcrtiharper.corp.verio.net (n00.bcrtfl01.us.wh.nameservers.net [208.55.254.110]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34F9881F for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:08:36 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Which license? From: Albert Hopkins To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Gentoo Foundation www.gentoo.org Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:09:31 -0400 Message-Id: <1146164971.25222.0.camel@cicada.nbk> 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 2.6.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: cd103a88-c1e8-478d-a840-11b4a73e2087 X-Archives-Hash: a6cd9168f7125e3ec14c602c567f7eda 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. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list