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 1DjDpX-0006RZ-Lc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:12:08 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j5HABF35018897; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:11:15 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.202]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j5HA9LYh017806 for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:09:22 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 37so1022468wra for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 03:09:24 -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=F+dh7jOeBNE4qYsLi9FIsC2utr2Db3O9qnZoM28JHzZYfrT9AEo/t11I0XRf/jy02KOBKI3MUtz8+KSIAzdFWDHZhROfdMmq6brF+GbLFaBgSIiXq0laOMg9/8Ia7pV+H/v/xiBsjo7yTSuoHpI8mYSxXftGs5aW9+2NZ9GQVak= Received: by 10.54.57.2 with SMTP id f2mr1047644wra; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 03:09:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.3.39 with HTTP; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 03:09:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <623652d5050617030936a691cc@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:09:24 +0000 From: Chris Bainbridge To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Questions about licenses In-Reply-To: <20050617010659.1917d347@sven.genone.homeip.net> 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> <87wtoulzn5.fsf@veller.net> <20050617010659.1917d347@sven.genone.homeip.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j5HA9LYh017806 X-Archives-Salt: 200e1a9f-1bb7-4456-8d46-65e41b97114e X-Archives-Hash: 18ac53ebc11d90dcdb19743b10193665 On 16/06/05, Marius Mauch wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 00:12:30 +0200 > Torsten Veller wrote: > > > > Ok, here is a license: > > I couldn't decide if this one is present already. > > All i have checked are slightly different. Maybe someone knows ;) > > > > If it is not in licenses/, can someone suggest a name for this one? > > Looks like as-is. Reclassifying a license based on what it "looks like" and then redistributing software puts Gentoo into an undesirable legal position. Gentoo developers are not IP lawyers - none of us I have the training to assess whether two licenses are equal. Additionally, many license texts are actually based on something like as-is, but with minor changes. Unless a package explicity says "this software is distributed under the xxx license", then it shouldn't be classed as being under that license - developers have no right to represent the license of a package as being anything other than a perfect reproduction of the license in the package archive. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list