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 1DiWHr-0004Ak-QF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:42:28 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j5FBeWv6023005; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:40:32 GMT Received: from outbound4.mail.tds.net (outbound4.mail.tds.net [216.170.230.94]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j5FBcKaf016433 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:38:21 GMT Received: from cerberus.oppresses.us (h69-21-248-215.69-21.unk.tds.net [69.21.248.215]) by outbound4.mail.tds.net (8.13.4/8.12.2) with ESMTP id j5FBd8Me014210 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 06:39:08 -0500 (CDT) Received: by cerberus.oppresses.us (Postfix, from userid 500) id 3EF034ABFB; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 07:39:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 07:39:08 -0400 From: Jon Portnoy To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about licenses Message-ID: <20050615113908.GA17719@cerberus.oppresses.us> References: <87u0jzhnrh.fsf@veller.net> <42B011A2.5010700@people.pl> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42B011A2.5010700@people.pl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: 8d9289b8-9933-4932-b1dd-830dcee1730b X-Archives-Hash: fce6578afe241a99eb772b92c2f11716 On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 01:31:46PM +0200, Krzysiek Pawlik wrote: > Torsten Veller wrote: > > Why do we add a license to the licenses/ dir? > > ;) > > > Does the language of the license matter? (selfhtml is in german) > > IMVHO: yes. I don't understand German, but English yes. > > > Aren't MIT and MetaKit and ... the same license? > > Aren't X11 and cdegood and JamesClark and ... the same license? > > Should the licenses/ dir be cleaned? > > (Should placeholders be used as in MIT?) > > Symlink? If MIT == MetaKit, then: > ln -s MIT MetaKit > I don't know about this specific case but generally speaking licenses that're similar in language and intent have very small (often cosmetic) differences; if there is even the slightest difference it (legally) qualifies as a different license and probably really should be included separately to be safe -- Jon Portnoy avenj/irc.freenode.net -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list