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On Tuesday 27 December 2005 02:01, R Hill wrote:
> AFAIK most licenses need to be included with the distribution of the
> source, not installed on the system after compilation.  But I could be
> wrong too.

anyone who installs a program in portage already has a copy of the license on 
their system ... $PORTDIR/licenses/
-mike
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