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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HmrAR-0004RN-Ua for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 May 2007 12:57:48 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4CCukaH011352; Sat, 12 May 2007 12:56:46 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4CCsnke008930 for ; Sat, 12 May 2007 12:54:50 GMT Received: by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix, from userid 739) id AC64864E44; Sat, 12 May 2007 12:54:49 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 14:54:49 +0200 From: Bryan =?utf-8?Q?=C3=98stergaard?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Eigen and GPL-2 exception - is a new licence required? Message-ID: <20070512125449.GE25269@woodpecker.gentoo.org> References: <200705121242.03449.cryos@gentoo.org> <200705121427.50624.carlo@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: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200705121427.50624.carlo@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l4CCukcE011352 X-Archives-Salt: 6433262c-79c9-4f1f-ba9d-0d832f05100c X-Archives-Hash: fcb1c9c23417fbb50af6dcd29db2f8bc On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 02:27:43PM +0200, Carsten Lohrke wrote: > No. LICENSE=3D"GPL-2 some-exception" suffices. That said, we suck at ou= r=20 > licensing information badly. E.g. every single ebuild linking against O= penSSL=20 > has (or at least needs to have) a linking exeption. We don't flag this=20 > anywhere. More important, what's with optional dependencies!? We don't=20 > support=20 >=20 > LICENSE=3D"GPL-2 ssl? ( openssl-exception)" >=20 > style LICENSE content at all iirc. Similar for all the patent-encumbere= d=20 > multimedia libs, which can't be distributed as binaries, but are not bl= ocked=20 > by some bindist feature flag or so. >=20 License follows the same syntax as DEPEND. See http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/variables/index.html#license. Regards, Bryan =C3=98stergaard --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list