Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: New project: Licenses

[hasufell <hasufell@gentoo.org>]

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On 11/21/2013 04:21 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 21 Nov 2013, hasufell  wrote:
> 
>>> For the time being, it will be listed as a top-level project. 
>>> (There were some ideas that Licenses could be a subproject of 
>>> another TLP, but so far this hasn't worked out.)
> 
>> It should be a subproject of QA.
> 
> Indeed, that's one of the two TLPs that were suggested. The past
> QA disliked having Licenses as their subproject, though. It depends
> on how the role of QA is defined: If it is seen as primarily
> technical, then Licenses (which is largely non-technical) doesn't
> fit so well.
> 
> Ulrich
> 

ACCEPT_LICENSE is a user-controlled variable that has global effect on
a gentoo installation.
If our tree is not consistent in terms of thoroughness of license
information, then that decreases user experience and we'll likely lose
people who take "free software" seriously.
So to me this is definitely a QA issue.
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