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From: Carsten Lohrke <carlo@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Installing COPYING or LICENSE files
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 15:21:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200512261521.22303.carlo@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051226135709.GB12305@phaenix.haell.com>

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On Monday 26 December 2005 14:57, Drake Wyrm wrote:
> You're going to be hard-pressed to get any kind of consensus on this
> issue. Many dev seems to feel that the license belongs there. In some
> cases the COPYING, LICENSE, and/or INSTALL files contain, not boilerplate
> drivel, but actually unique, useful information.

Removing these files and relying on LICENSE=foo in the ebuild could be seen as 
a copyright violation. There are lots of samples in /usr/src/licenses that 
aren't generic, but include a copyright notice naming the authors of a 
particular piece of software, but it doesn't match with all packages under 
this license of course. Take ZLIB as example. Since I'm not a lawyer I might 
be wrong, but me thinks it would make sense to ask one.


Carsten



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-12-26 14:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-14  7:12 [gentoo-dev] aging ebuilds with unstable keywords Daniel Ahlberg
2005-11-14 13:14 ` Andrej Kacian
2005-11-21  2:39 ` [gentoo-dev] " R Hill
2005-11-21 12:47   ` Petteri Räty
2005-12-26 13:24     ` [gentoo-dev] Installing COPYING or LICENSE files Petteri Räty
2005-12-26 13:57       ` Drake Wyrm
2005-12-26 14:02         ` Petteri Räty
2005-12-26 14:12           ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-12-26 14:21         ` Carsten Lohrke [this message]
2005-12-27  7:01           ` [gentoo-dev] " R Hill
2005-12-27  7:08             ` Mike Frysinger
2005-12-27  7:23               ` Brian Harring
2005-12-27  7:33                 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-12-27 13:14               ` Carsten Lohrke
2005-12-27  8:53             ` Harald van Dijk
2005-12-27 10:32               ` Petteri Räty
2005-12-27 11:20                 ` Harald van Dijk
2005-12-27 14:57                   ` Henrik Brix Andersen
2005-12-27 13:40                     ` Harald van Dijk
2005-12-26 20:48       ` [gentoo-dev] " Mike Frysinger
2005-12-27 13:43       ` Petteri Räty
2005-11-25  7:16   ` [gentoo-dev] Re: aging ebuilds with unstable keywords Andrej Kacian
2005-11-25 23:15     ` R Hill

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