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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about licenses
  @ 2005-06-15 16:26 99%     ` Maurice van der Pot
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From: Maurice van der Pot @ 2005-06-15 16:26 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:04:39AM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > > What about all these /usr/share/doc/*/COPYING* files? Are they
> > > necessary if all licenses are in licenses/ ?
> > See first point. You want to read the license _before_ installing stuff
> 
> Actually, I can see the point in not needing to copy these files, as the
> license is already specified in the ebuild and should be available in
> $PORTDIR/licenses, so this is a redundancy.

Exactly. Same with the INSTALL files we all know: "... These are generic
installation instructions. ...". It doesn't add anything, so don't
install it.

Maurice.

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