From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FZBBt-0007Z9-FC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:26:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k3RIOugf004867; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:24:56 GMT Received: from mail.bway.net (xena.bway.net [216.220.96.26]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k3RILeiu012007 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:21:40 GMT Received: (qmail 80384 invoked by uid 0); 27 Apr 2006 18:21:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ida.bway.net) (216.220.96.4) by smtp.bway.net with (EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 27 Apr 2006 18:21:39 -0000 Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:21:38 -0400 (EDT) From: "A. Khattri" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] Which license? Message-ID: 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-Archives-Salt: 9015708d-f86e-45ea-9a9f-2da3f96cf52b X-Archives-Hash: d081d2d8cb4484ed2b5a72c5320d1e54 Im working on an ebuild for a package and Im not sure what license to use. The package is Copyright Company "X" but has this underneath: ## This software may be freely copied, modified and redistributed ## without fee for non-commerical purposes provided that this license ## remains intact and unmodified with any distribution. ## ## There is no warranty or other guarantee of fitness of this software. ## It is provided solely "as is". The author(s) disclaim(s) all ## responsibility and liability with respect to this software's usage ## or its effect upon hardware, computer systems, other software, or ## anything else. ## Last time I looked, there were some 800 or so files in /usr/portage/license/ - so which one would I use? -- Aj -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list