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 1EqtGn-000320-Ae for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 14:24:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBQENOQi012827; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 14:23:24 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBQELPD2014259 for ; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 14:21:25 GMT Received: from d134058.adsl.hansenet.de ([80.171.134.58] helo=iglu.bnet.local) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1EqtE5-0005Dv-3G for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 14:21:25 +0000 From: Carsten Lohrke To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Installing COPYING or LICENSE files Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 15:21:14 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 References: <20051114071225.57DE92D8249@caddie.localnet> <43AFEF18.8020403@gentoo.org> <20051226135709.GB12305@phaenix.haell.com> In-Reply-To: <20051226135709.GB12305@phaenix.haell.com> 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; boundary="nextPart5739165.ZhgVjr8PqA"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200512261521.22303.carlo@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 24ddccd7-3702-4228-bbba-b594b7a43bc4 X-Archives-Hash: 8ccdd08caac1b465e01371e350caf97e --nextPart5739165.ZhgVjr8PqA Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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=3Dfoo in the ebuild could be se= en as=20 a copyright violation. There are lots of samples in /usr/src/licenses that= =20 aren't generic, but include a copyright notice naming the authors of a=20 particular piece of software, but it doesn't match with all packages under= =20 this license of course. Take ZLIB as example. Since I'm not a lawyer I migh= t=20 be wrong, but me thinks it would make sense to ask one. Carsten --nextPart5739165.ZhgVjr8PqA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDr/xiVwbzmvGLSW8RAgNlAJ9L7Ukd/TM1m2p/eGuotAitunJT+wCfS0ED EzguwFk4AmcwORbRf1X61CA= =pQ9f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5739165.ZhgVjr8PqA-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list