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 1Eqszm-0001UO-4p for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 14:06:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBQE5S6L018407; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 14:05:28 GMT Received: from gw01.mail.saunalahti.fi (gw01.mail.saunalahti.fi [195.197.172.115]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBQE2qMa001668 for ; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 14:02:52 GMT Received: from [192.168.150.87] (YYYMMMCCII.dsl.saunalahti.fi [85.76.10.103]) by gw01.mail.saunalahti.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9CCF104563 for ; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 16:02:51 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <43AFF80B.6080900@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 16:02:51 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?UGV0dGVyaSBSw6R0eQ==?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051206) 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] Installing COPYING or LICENSE files References: <20051114071225.57DE92D8249@caddie.localnet> <4381336F.9010007@gmail.com> <4381C1CA.7020408@gentoo.org> <43AFEF18.8020403@gentoo.org> <20051226135709.GB12305@phaenix.haell.com> In-Reply-To: <20051226135709.GB12305@phaenix.haell.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 OpenPGP: url=http://users.tkk.fi/~praty/public.asc Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig322FFA98961A5F2658E699C8" X-Archives-Salt: e382adc6-9b31-418a-9f87-5419db245205 X-Archives-Hash: 4944b43df6071bc1f83020a03f191be5 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig322FFA98961A5F2658E699C8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Drake Wyrm wrote: > Petteri R??ty wrote: > >>Petteri R??ty wrote: >> >>>R Hill wrote: >>> >>>>Daniel Ahlberg wrote: >>>> >>>>>* if ebuild installs COPYING and/or INSTALL into doc. >>>> >>>>Is this actually important? There are a hell of a lot of ebuilds that fail >>>>under this rule. I'd like to start filing patches for some of the packages in >>>>this list so I'm interested in knowing what's worth fixing and what's being >>>>pedantic. >>> >>>Not a blocker but just useless. Filing patches for ebuilds doing this is >>>greatly appreciated by at least me. >> >>https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113680 >> >>So is there a policy about [not] installing the COPYING or LICENSE files >>already? If there isn't one, I propose we make a decision about this to >>have uniform behaviour across the tree. > > > You're going to be hard-pressed to get any kind of consensus on this > issue. Many dev seems to feel that the license belongs there. In some > cases the COPYING, LICENSE, and/or INSTALL files contain, not boilerplate > drivel, but actually unique, useful information. > > Certainly there could be value in leaving out _yet_another_ copy of the > GPL and the banal INSTALL, but even that wouldn't justify a universal > ban on certain file names. > I am not out to ban certain file names. Just for example the copies of GPL-2 or the general INSTALL file. If the file does contain useful information I am all for installing it. It's just that usually the INSTALL file is not really useful unless you are manually installing the package from sources and then you will have the INSTALL file in there with the sources. Regards, Petteri --------------enig322FFA98961A5F2658E699C8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDr/gLcxLzpIGCsLQRAqZUAJ4gKdKXNyJnr+Nl6n27RodmlEgXcgCfdxAM 0qBTLXZGjxTkV8X3co4dFik= =ZbFP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig322FFA98961A5F2658E699C8-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list