On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 04:34:27PM -0700, Alec Warner wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 10:39 AM Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > On 9/11/19 1:21 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> > > +++ b/dev-vcs/hub/hub-2.12.3.ebuild
> > > ...
> > >
> > > LICENSE="MIT"
> >
> > This license is wrong, as it's pretty much guaranteed to be every time
> > you commit one of these packages. I find it pretty troubling that one
> > corporation is able to force this stuff through even though it's a
> > security and legal hazard for everyone else.
> >
> 
> How is it wrong?
> 
> https://github.com/github/hub/blob/master/LICENSE

The argument is that because of the vendoring, LICENSE= needs to list
all licenses for the vendored dependencies that are different from MIT
as well.

Personally I don't have a comment about this, but that's what is being
pushed for. I'll let you guys debate this but it isn't really relevant
to the eclass. ;-)

William