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 1ErCAT-0006N8-U0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 10:34:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBRAYGcb023819; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 10:34:16 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 jBRAWRfh009491 for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 10:32:27 GMT Received: from [192.168.150.87] (YYYMMMCCII.dsl.saunalahti.fi [85.76.10.103]) by gw01.mail.saunalahti.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7487E106CFB for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 12:32:25 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <43B11839.4060804@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 12:32:25 +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] Re: Installing COPYING or LICENSE files References: <20051114071225.57DE92D8249@caddie.localnet> <43AFEF18.8020403@gentoo.org> <20051226135709.GB12305@phaenix.haell.com> <200512261521.22303.carlo@gentoo.org> <20051227085357.GA4151@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20051227085357.GA4151@gentoo.org> 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="------------enig662673196B8544F1FED467E0" X-Archives-Salt: 592b86b3-5c31-4b29-92f1-02b8189ac7d6 X-Archives-Hash: 517a76a66ddba4428dddebfc46ba6707 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig662673196B8544F1FED467E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Harald van D=C4=B3k wrote: > On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 01:01:10AM -0600, R Hill wrote: >=20 >>>Removing these files and relying on LICENSE=3Dfoo in the ebuild could = be seen as=20 >>>a copyright violation. There are lots of samples in /usr/src/licenses = that=20 >>>aren't generic, but include a copyright notice naming the authors of a= =20 >>>particular piece of software, but it doesn't match with all packages u= nder=20 >>>this license of course. Take ZLIB as example. Since I'm not a lawyer I= might=20 >>>be wrong, but me thinks it would make sense to ask one. >> >>AFAIK most licenses need to be included with the distribution of the so= urce, not >>installed on the system after compilation. But I could be wrong too. >=20 >=20 > There are exceptions, a popular one being BSD. >=20 > * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright= > * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in t= he > * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distributi= on. >=20 > As a quick example, iputils is BSD-licensed and does not install or > reproduce its license, so does this cause problems for iputils binpkgs?= We are not redistributing anything in binary form when installing programs. This all happens on the users computers. We are distributing upstream source tarballs verbatim of course. If the license should be installed, shouldn't the upstream make install take care of it then? Regards, Petteri --------------enig662673196B8544F1FED467E0 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 iD8DBQFDsRg5cxLzpIGCsLQRAvbjAJ46RwDUJqPhjXlnnHUcvf8UtwnUwgCfb2fx Qf5Isq2xoA2M0dHTw6SDvaY= =7aVd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig662673196B8544F1FED467E0-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list