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From: Alin Nastac <mrness@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Which license?
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 22:32:44 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44511C5C.2060606@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.58.0604271419090.8377@ida.bway.net>

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A. Khattri wrote:

>Im working on an ebuild for a package and Im not sure what license to use.
>The package is Copyright Company "X" but has this underneath:
>
>
>## This software may be freely copied, modified and redistributed
>## without fee for non-commerical purposes provided that this license
>## remains intact and unmodified with any distribution.
>##
>## There is no warranty or other guarantee of fitness of this software.
>## It is provided solely "as is".  The author(s) disclaim(s) all
>## responsibility and liability with respect to this software's usage
>## or its effect upon hardware, computer systems, other software, or
>## anything else.
>##
>
>
>Last time I looked, there were some 800 or so files in
>/usr/portage/license/ - so which one would I use?
>
>
>  
>
LICENSE="as-is" ?

IANAL


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-04-27 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-27 18:21 [gentoo-dev] Which license? A. Khattri
2006-04-27 18:50 ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-04-27 19:03 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-04-27 19:09 ` Albert Hopkins
2006-04-27 19:19 ` Tavis Ormandy
2006-04-27 19:32 ` Alin Nastac [this message]

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