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 1DiW2a-0000JW-E8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:26:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j5FBOojC027096; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:24:50 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j5FBLlcg028180 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:21:50 GMT Received: from server1.tmkis.com ([62.216.179.226]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DiVyd-0005QZ-NL for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:22:35 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server1.tmkis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66659E41F8 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:22:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: from server1.tmkis.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (server1.tmkis.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 03690-09 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:22:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: from arkane.local (p54A60E42.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.166.14.66]) by server1.tmkis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A81FE4075 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:22:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: by arkane.local (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6A38AB9F5; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:18:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Torsten Veller To: gentoo-dev Subject: [gentoo-dev] Questions about licenses X-Face: ===_______=8)_=8)_______A_very_very_nice_face_______=8)_=8)_______=== X-PGP-Fingerprint: 0416 3C11 8D79 65B9 AAD0 2065 BBC7 14D1 9C67 CD96 Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:18:10 +0200 Message-ID: <87u0jzhnrh.fsf@veller.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at server1.tmkis.com X-Archives-Salt: 0cfcb445-b0d5-49ca-8253-018a2d3ae6be X-Archives-Hash: ffa4dbef46055709ec653509347e088e 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.) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list