From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DB47A138334 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2018 22:32:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 247DFE081A; Fri, 31 Aug 2018 22:31:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pl1-f176.google.com (mail-pl1-f176.google.com [209.85.214.176]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BBAAFE07DB for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2018 22:31:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pl1-f176.google.com with SMTP id j8-v6so6038368pll.12 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2018 15:31:58 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=852eoHXB8/AXIEhu/NaeSkKDuIOVy6MhNBB77UUNWp8=; b=fz5Fus4/CfUBCIGIy/oVLWL7ovbqtz5uhpWhftLGzt0MJRi/W/0bV6f36N3ogW4MLu 5wj4aN8BcG8d7NsPIX2qrCrEGnk8X5fgDoSRq0rgh0Yt3OoYgB/aCjoqwlhj1frnHM3J LZQlghAs0kdH7Ba/+EmoyL6UgBSi+wrw+A0+AnepxzG/7cjAu68l14Q+z07JHMaApUvD 8R9hB3Ryd+pzw5E1oaYB45dzKXoik5Ni0yzwdgZEti+LAQ5qprH9YT66+HuC3n234ObP +duskRPUXOhn/Odgus8eWz3Yx5g4iJBCDFhmOkFTydR10oqoI3jsxytjvFW0AQObhM+i vLTw== X-Gm-Message-State: APzg51CztbFTm9lHYQ6SYQ7ta2jG1Z7xYaSdQr0REuv8EwOZs0kbaAwR pTWuDwImpZsCCa8/bOGKZ2Yu2XXEdeq8sKOlYbsnsuFR X-Google-Smtp-Source: ANB0VdaKf9r0KPV4spK32YDCAxW0mIjc72FzNwHtANoXc64iISKGzOOM2EgzLSmP0S/vHubZyR7H4btesOsHrC+w0FY= X-Received: by 2002:a17:902:a613:: with SMTP id u19-v6mr17791580plq.234.1535754717349; Fri, 31 Aug 2018 15:31:57 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1535279962.1066.24.camel@gentoo.org> <1535280838.4490.16.camel@gentoo.org> <5bf34233-8740-44e2-e4d5-2f647a703584@gentoo.org> <4004237.4pTCg0tAxr@saffron> In-Reply-To: <4004237.4pTCg0tAxr@saffron> From: Rich Freeman Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 18:31:46 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Solving the problem of huge number of wrong LICENSES=*GPL-[23] To: gentoo-dev Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Archives-Salt: 3dd21a4a-be59-4821-9d1c-26558c7ffff7 X-Archives-Hash: 3d3dfd94fddddd69ee893bde042c329a On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 6:46 PM Michael Mol wrote: > > I can say that if the licenses are habitually misidentified, I could not use > Gentoo's portage tree in my job without extensive and ongoing revalidation of > the license metadata. > Keep in mind that we're just talking about GPL-2 vs 2+ and GPL-3 vs 3+. We're not talking about GPL vs BSD vs something that involves a EULA. Do you actually accept one of these without the other, such that you would have problems if they had gotten confused? -- Rich