From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.105.134.102] (helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DiWe6-0003Cx-9W for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:05:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j5FC3n6w020548; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:03:49 GMT Received: from v00054.home.net.pl (people.pl [212.85.96.54]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j5FC09TK031275 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:00:09 GMT Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.1.1?) (krzysiek.pawlik.people@home@127.0.0.1) by matrix01.home.net.pl with SMTP; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:00:57 -0000 Message-ID: <42B01879.6090804@people.pl> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:00:57 +0200 From: Krzysiek Pawlik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050324) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about licenses References: <87u0jzhnrh.fsf@veller.net> <42B011A2.5010700@people.pl> <20050615113908.GA17719@cerberus.oppresses.us> In-Reply-To: <20050615113908.GA17719@cerberus.oppresses.us> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 699716a1-f453-41a3-8170-704c600b59ea X-Archives-Hash: 7e7376bc311644ce56332f431f2073cf Jon Portnoy wrote: >>Symlink? If MIT == MetaKit, then: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >>ln -s MIT MetaKit > I don't know about this specific case but generally speaking licenses > that're similar in language and intent have very small (often cosmetic) > differences; if there is even the slightest difference it (legally) > qualifies as a different license and probably really should be included > separately to be safe Exactly my point :) I've looked at MIT and MetaKit and: +Copyright (c) 1996-2001 Jean-Claude Wippler -Copyright (c) Except formatting and above diff theye are identical. -- Krzysiek 'Nelchael' Pawlik RLU #322999 GPG:0xBC555551 gentoo - kernel 2.6.11-ck10 http://fatcat.ftj.agh.edu.pl/~nelchael/ .... now touch these wires to your tongue! -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list