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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@cs.kun.nl>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About ebuild license
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On Wednesday 05 June 2002 12:08, Francisco Gimeno wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I was wondering about the license of the ebuilds. So, when I'm making
> ebuild, I want to reuse what I have read in others ebuilds.
> I have no read nothing about it, so I don't know that I'm not making ba=
d
> things.
>
> So, the question is: What is the license of a gentoo in .ebuild ?
> When I summited some ebuilds, I was never asked for distributing my ebu=
ild.
>
> Where can I read more about ->gentoo pieces<- licenses
>

The gentoo ebuilds (actually all gentoo) are licenced unther the GPL.
For ebuilds this can be seen at the top of every ebuild

Paul

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