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 1ErFAS-0000oX-7W for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 13:47:08 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBRDiF4P004809; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 13:44:15 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 jBRDgAOV028607 for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 13:42:10 GMT Received: from [192.168.150.87] (YYYMMMCCII.dsl.saunalahti.fi [85.76.10.103]) by gw01.mail.saunalahti.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE6481083E7 for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 15:43:40 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <43B1450A.8050003@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 15:43:38 +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> In-Reply-To: <43AFEF18.8020403@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="------------enig485CEE1DA37C3AF2C90D42CF" X-Archives-Salt: 974bb72e-9b76-4c04-a87d-52b39ea6ed5b X-Archives-Hash: b1bc4e027348197528b364870424a2bb This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig485CEE1DA37C3AF2C90D42CF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Petteri R=C3=A4ty wrote: > Petteri R=C3=A4ty wrote: >=20 >>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 pac= kages 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 i= s >>greatly appreciated by at least me. >> >>Regards, >>Petteri >=20 >=20 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D113680 >=20 > So is there a policy about [not] installing the COPYING or LICENSE file= s > already? If there isn't one, I propose we make a decision about this to= > have uniform behaviour across the tree. >=20 > Regards, > Petteri >=20 Looking at the thread I don't see anyone opposing not installing for example a copy of GPL-2 or the generic INSTALL file. So could we write a policy somewhere not to these duplicated files when we are not legally required to install these files? That should satisfy any conserns raised.= Regards, Petteri --------------enig485CEE1DA37C3AF2C90D42CF 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 iD8DBQFDsUUMcxLzpIGCsLQRAsTWAJkBEQf0dwcr55fQQnkpVOoUk1o/mACdE9vN +HKCahQHfN6+Y3kVRECGHp8= =yRFV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig485CEE1DA37C3AF2C90D42CF-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list