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From: Torsten Veller <tove@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Questions about licenses
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:18:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87u0jzhnrh.fsf@veller.net> (raw)

Why do we add a license to the licenses/ dir?
And in addition: When should a license be added to licenses/ ?

Do we only add those licenses to define valid names for the LICENSE
variable?

There are over 3MB in nearly 500 files. How will those licenses be
classified if ACCEPT_LICENSES (GLEP 23) is implemented?

Does the language of the license matter? (selfhtml is in german)

Aren't MIT and MetaKit and ... the same license?
Aren't X11 and cdegood and JamesClark and ... the same license?
Should the licenses/ dir be cleaned?
(Should placeholders be used as in MIT?)

What about all these /usr/share/doc/*/COPYING* files? Are they
necessary if all licenses are in licenses/ ?

(Am i asking too many questions? Sorry, but i have the feeling that
this whole license stuff is not useful atm and i don't see how we
can deal with the great number of files in the future.)
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             reply	other threads:[~2005-06-15 11:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-15 11:18 Torsten Veller [this message]
2005-06-15 11:31 ` [gentoo-dev] Questions about licenses Krzysiek Pawlik
2005-06-15 11:39   ` Jon Portnoy
2005-06-15 12:00     ` Krzysiek Pawlik
2005-06-15 12:14       ` Jon Portnoy
2005-06-15 12:29         ` Krzysiek Pawlik
2005-06-15 14:02   ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-06-15 14:07     ` Krzysiek Pawlik
2005-06-15 11:44 ` Patrick Lauer
2005-06-15 14:04   ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-06-15 16:26     ` Maurice van der Pot
2005-06-15 18:38       ` Chris Bainbridge
2005-06-15 19:06         ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-06-16 22:12   ` [gentoo-dev] " Torsten Veller
2005-06-16 23:06     ` Marius Mauch
2005-06-17 10:09       ` Chris Bainbridge

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