On Thu, 2019-09-12 at 09:42 -0700, Alec Warner wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 9:14 AM Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > On 9/12/19 11:46 AM, William Hubbs wrote:
> > > In other words, the way I see this is a tree-wide issue. LICENSE= for
> > > any package should list every license for every package it links to or
> > > uses.
> > > 
> > There is no issue tree-wide, because no one else is trying to cut
> > corners and bundle every dependency of every package. All of our
> > dependencies are in separate packages, with separate LICENSE variables.
> > So when you install one package, the LICENSE variables of all its
> > dependencies pulled in by the package manager are indeed taken into
> > account. That's the whole point of a package manager -- it can do these
> > things for you if the developers do their jobs and package software
> > correctly.
> > 
> 
> I'm not really keen on this language ("cutting corners"). Newer languages
> are not C, they don't act like C, build like C or do many other things like
> C[0].

This doesn't mean they do anything better.  It just means they are
easier for 'write, deploy, sell, forget' model.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny