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 1Er8s1-0006JJ-NL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 07:03:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBR72x1I025675; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 07:02:59 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBR718UK002008 for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 07:01:08 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1Er8pX-0001WJ-7a for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 07:01:07 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Er8pQ-0004zN-IP for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 08:01:00 +0100 Received: from 206-163-248-179.yktn.hsdb.sasknet.sk.ca ([206.163.248.179]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 08:01:00 +0100 Received: from dirtyepic.sk by 206-163-248-179.yktn.hsdb.sasknet.sk.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 08:01:00 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: R Hill Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Installing COPYING or LICENSE files Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:01:10 -0600 Message-ID: References: <20051114071225.57DE92D8249@caddie.localnet> <43AFEF18.8020403@gentoo.org> <20051226135709.GB12305@phaenix.haell.com> <200512261521.22303.carlo@gentoo.org> 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=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 206-163-248-179.yktn.hsdb.sasknet.sk.ca User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.6a1 (X11/20051225) In-Reply-To: <200512261521.22303.carlo@gentoo.org> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 3af8c4fc-7bf3-416d-9546-b3d76cc7ac97 X-Archives-Hash: c08effad1e1e6d203cbc774480265038 Carsten Lohrke wrote: > On Monday 26 December 2005 14:57, Drake Wyrm wrote: >> You're going to be hard-pressed to get any kind of consensus on this >> issue. Many dev seems to feel that the license belongs there. In some >> cases the COPYING, LICENSE, and/or INSTALL files contain, not boilerplate >> drivel, but actually unique, useful information. I found that as well, and made sure to only bug people about generic files. In most of those cases COPYING/LICENSE is generic while INSTALL was custom. > Removing these files and relying on LICENSE=foo in the ebuild could be seen as > a copyright violation. There are lots of samples in /usr/src/licenses that > aren't generic, but include a copyright notice naming the authors of a > particular piece of software, but it doesn't match with all packages under > this license of course. Take ZLIB as example. Since I'm not a lawyer I might > be wrong, but me thinks it would make sense to ask one. AFAIK most licenses need to be included with the distribution of the source, not installed on the system after compilation. But I could be wrong too. --de. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list