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 1DiaoV-0003DJ-6b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:32:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j5FGUumS006161; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:30:56 GMT Received: from griffon26.kfk4ever.com (griffon26.demon.nl [82.161.57.89]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j5FGRQSu012771 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:27:26 GMT Received: by griffon26.kfk4ever.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B27C4A16259; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:26:50 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:26:49 +0200 From: Maurice van der Pot To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about licenses Message-ID: <20050615162649.GN5946@kfk4ever.com> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <87u0jzhnrh.fsf@veller.net> <1118835852.6572.5.camel@localhost> <1118844279.14164.21.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> 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: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="YolNsh7G+K7zsfIR" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1118844279.14164.21.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> X-PGP-Key: http://www.kfk4ever.com/~griffon26/pubkey.asc X-URL: http://www.kfk4ever.com/ X-Archives-Salt: 9b368d29-60cb-491d-b9f9-697b5139c82c X-Archives-Hash: c36b860f13f2d107f894bdbcff6bd2d5 --YolNsh7G+K7zsfIR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:04:39AM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > > 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 >=20 > 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. Exactly. Same with the INSTALL files we all know: "... These are generic installation instructions. ...". It doesn't add anything, so don't install it. Maurice. --=20 Maurice van der Pot Gentoo Linux Developer griffon26@gentoo.org http://www.gentoo.org Creator of BiteMe! griffon26@kfk4ever.com http://www.kfk4ever.com --YolNsh7G+K7zsfIR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCsFbIMGnpIbeahxwRApvEAKCr+4IWnVBdDgs2A19G6J7tod0P9gCfQTyz wzEBQJxbPloUw9PK7UFxUig= =T/+A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YolNsh7G+K7zsfIR-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list