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 1Dj2k6-00027h-Rl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 22:21:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j5GMKc5M016543; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 22:20:38 GMT Received: from server1.tmkis.com (server1.tmkis.com [62.216.179.226]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j5GMILNa023632 for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 22:18:21 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server1.tmkis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49BACE4210 for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 00:18:22 +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 13527-07 for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 00:18:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from arkane.local (p54A613E8.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.166.19.232]) by server1.tmkis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14480E420D for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 00:18:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: by arkane.local (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C9EF041635D; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 00:12:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Torsten Veller To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Questions about licenses References: <87u0jzhnrh.fsf@veller.net> <1118835852.6572.5.camel@localhost> X-Face: ===_______=8)_=8)_______A_very_very_nice_face_______=8)_=8)_______=== X-PGP-Fingerprint: 0416 3C11 8D79 65B9 AAD0 2065 BBC7 14D1 9C67 CD96 Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 00:12:30 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1118835852.6572.5.camel@localhost> (Patrick Lauer's message of "Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:44:12 +0200") Message-ID: <87wtoulzn5.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: 7f8b44e6-cdb2-46ce-90d6-10f826b3d274 X-Archives-Hash: 1710c850a80bfed2815e15702c7dba2b * Patrick Lauer : > 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: 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". -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list