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 1ErCuJ-0003X4-Es for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 11:22:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBRBK0AV014303; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 11:20:00 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 jBRBHwQ3021928 for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 11:17:58 GMT Received: from cp237988-a.mill1.nb.home.nl ([84.29.235.69] helo=localhost) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1ErCrX-0005Ts-Vz for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 11:19:28 +0000 Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 12:20:39 +0100 From: Harald van =?utf-8?Q?D=C4=B3k?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Installing COPYING or LICENSE files Message-ID: <20051227112039.GA18545@gentoo.org> References: <20051114071225.57DE92D8249@caddie.localnet> <43AFEF18.8020403@gentoo.org> <20051226135709.GB12305@phaenix.haell.com> <200512261521.22303.carlo@gentoo.org> <20051227085357.GA4151@gentoo.org> <43B11839.4060804@gentoo.org> 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="lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43B11839.4060804@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: eb7360b9-681d-42b6-aa2e-b84134674bf9 X-Archives-Hash: 3f602d4e3883bdf9b38285116d6c8868 --lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 12:32:25PM +0200, Petteri R=C3=A4ty wrote: > Harald van D=C4=B3k wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 01:01:10AM -0600, R Hill wrote: > >=20 > >>>Removing these files and relying on LICENSE=3Dfoo in the ebuild could = be seen 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 u= nder=20 > >>>this license of course. Take ZLIB as example. Since I'm not a lawyer I= might=20 > >>>be wrong, but me thinks it would make sense to ask one. > >> > >>AFAIK most licenses need to be included with the distribution of the so= urce, not > >>installed on the system after compilation. But I could be wrong too. > >=20 > >=20 > > There are exceptions, a popular one being BSD. > >=20 > > * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright > > * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in t= he > > * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distributi= on. > >=20 > > As a quick example, iputils is BSD-licensed and does not install or > > reproduce its license, so does this cause problems for iputils binpkgs? >=20 > We are not redistributing anything in binary form when installing > programs. Of course, but we are redistributing programs in binary form in exactly the same state as when installing them, via stages and live/packagecds. > If the license should be > installed, shouldn't the upstream make install take care of it then? iputils doesn't do a make install, and if it did, it would still be reasonable if that didn't copy the license, since the users who run that themselves don't need it. --lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDsSOHwnQyISwouHwRAt20AKClBdqvw553bsd4FoiwsaycJRRp9QCeLB6y wTFJYIanw4ceLKlRQLtQ6bw= =8Z/t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list