From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.105.134.102] (helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dicqt-0006ll-9S for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:43:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j5FIf1Nw011517; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:41:01 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.195]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j5FIc5Oc024131 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:38:06 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so33563wri for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:38:57 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Q/B+wZL81PXGSEaE9S49pVbN1keCtZSI8G2Ui61N0/NOvS0ShYZ9cc78eIuenTCx45Zgib/PtN32A4ltCGi3D2L9ac5f8goEI01pqsuXNgJwelvzt+riapywd2tJYZAZKDqn1OtIsAfJJVUiW3bZfDwwzROMJhBfyMwBvwAIOVM= Received: by 10.54.104.20 with SMTP id b20mr4321156wrc; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:38:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.3.39 with HTTP; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:38:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <623652d5050615113873104599@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:38:57 +0000 From: Chris Bainbridge To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about licenses In-Reply-To: <20050615162649.GN5946@kfk4ever.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <87u0jzhnrh.fsf@veller.net> <1118835852.6572.5.camel@localhost> <1118844279.14164.21.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <20050615162649.GN5946@kfk4ever.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j5FIc5Oc024131 X-Archives-Salt: 07214148-6284-4cc9-b56f-e46eb755703f X-Archives-Hash: 853204c470afb99946af88686b2ec3a9 On 15/06/05, Maurice van der Pot wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:04:39AM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > > > What about all these /usr/share/doc/*/COPYING* files? Are they > > > > necessary if all licenses are in licenses/ ? > > > See first point. You want to read the license _before_ installing stuff The obvious thing to do is to have a licenses package that install all of the licenses somewhere. If someone wants to check a license they emerge it first. /usr/portage/licenses does seem unnecessarily big for the portage tree. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list