[gentoo-dev] Re: Questions about licenses

[Torsten Veller <tove@gentoo.org>]

* Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org>:
> On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 13:18 +0200, Torsten Veller wrote:
>
> > Why do we add a license to the licenses/ dir?
>
> Because there should be an easy way to find licenses?
> And you can do "emerge search foo", then read the license and decide
> wether you want to install foo.
> 
> > And in addition: When should a license be added to licenses/ ?
>
> When at least one ebuild uses a license that is not already there?

Ok, here is a license: <http://rafb.net/paste/results/j88sYC87.html>
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?

> > There are over 3MB in nearly 500 files. How will those licenses be
> > classified if ACCEPT_LICENSES (GLEP 23) is implemented?
> I guess groups ... OSI approved, "free", commercial, ...

Classification <-> groups, sure.
But how? How can this be done with 500 files? Who wants to do this?
 
> > Aren't X11 and cdegood and JamesClark and ... the same license?
>
> Maybe there's one paragraph changed - I haven't looked at them yet.

I don't know how to diff them efficiently. I put every word in in a
line of its own. X11 is different - but cdegood and JamesClark differ
in something like "ask cdegroot" and "ask James Clark".
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