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 1FZCJS-0006Tj-NS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 19:38:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k3RJaJVq013843; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 19:36:19 GMT Received: from mail.ineton.ro (mail.ineton.ro [217.156.27.7]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k3RJWvAM016408 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 19:32:57 GMT Received: (qmail 31713 invoked by uid 210); 27 Apr 2006 22:32:57 +0300 Received: from 217.156.27.36 by hera (envelope-from , uid 201) with qmail-scanner-1.25st (bitdefender: v7.0/2490/372246. spamassassin: 3.1.0. perlscan: 1.25st. Clear:RC:1(217.156.27.36):. Processed in 1.945335 secs); 27 Apr 2006 19:32:57 -0000 Received: from tg-neamt1.ineton.ro (HELO ?217.156.27.36?) (mrness@217.156.27.36) by mail.ineton.ro with ESMTPA; 27 Apr 2006 22:32:55 +0300 Message-ID: <44511C5C.2060606@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 22:32:44 +0300 From: Alin Nastac Organization: Gentoo Foundation User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20060218) 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] Which license? References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigB4787F15A95CE97E88854765" X-Archives-Salt: 85448cf6-6d79-40a0-a7b1-9f5a0f650449 X-Archives-Hash: d027ce511de720e784d48019eaeefd62 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigB4787F15A95CE97E88854765 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 --------------enigB4787F15A95CE97E88854765 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEURxgRZBYwhawvi4RAk7QAJ9IYhBdlAFZN3JuOxj+SkRHUrSLwQCgujAg f4iW/I8WxMAoPtY/ngMJQ5s= =cTFj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigB4787F15A95CE97E88854765-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list