From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 792211381F3 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:34:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4846C21C00F; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:34:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1D5BDE0741 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:33:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id qBKMXrDe020271 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:33:53 +0100 Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.5/8.14.2) with ESMTP id qBKMXrnu031118; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:33:53 +0100 Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id qBKMXrGS031116; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:33:53 +0100 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <20691.37457.169265.833193@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:33:53 +0100 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Keeping licenses around In-Reply-To: References: <20691.19070.847806.983953@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <50D35249.1090608@gentoo.org> <20691.21794.717209.574564@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <50D356B6.2090602@gentoo.org> <50D37909.2030406@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 23.4.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) From: Ulrich Mueller X-Archives-Salt: 149a58ff-037e-4fd8-abe4-77b393557aee X-Archives-Hash: 3785f9aa5a3c10b2e66896d54fb67358 >>>>> On Thu, 20 Dec 2012, Rich Freeman wrote: >> If only a small subset of licenses require it, then maybe we should just >> use dodoc on those licenses that require it. Saving all licenses could >> be overkill. > Seems like a reasonable compromise. I would think such licenses would > be rare. I still think it is extralegal to try to require this, but > some would rather not take risks and I can appreciate that... The current solution is to install such licenses when USE="bindist" is set. When installing from source, one can normally assume that ${PORTDIR}/licenses exists. Ulrich