On 28/08/2018 00:46, Michael Mol wrote:
> I can say that if the licenses are habitually misidentified, I could not use 
> Gentoo's portage tree in my job without extensive and ongoing revalidation of 
> the license metadata.
> 
> There are, in fact, automated tools for advising about the license disposition 
> of these types of things, examining source files for unfortunate edits and 
> variants and flagging them, etc. It might be an interesting task at some point 
> to point some of these tools at portage, look for incorrect metadata and file 
> bug reports.
> 
> Not suggesting this is a worthwhile approach up front, but it might be a 
> useful tool in the future for dealing with license metadata quality as a 
> chronic issue. (Which, in turn, is useful for commercial consumption and 
> participation.)

Given the reality of how open source project works, I believe it's up to
people who care/need this most to do such work in Gentoo.

From what I see, nobody would be opposed to _someone_ making the
metadata more precise. On the other hand, I sense most people don't see
enough benefit to sign up for such work themselves - which I totally
understand.

Paweł