From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Pqwxn-00052G-U6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:15:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B55571C005; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:15:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 135F21C005 for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:15:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.0/8.13.4) with ESMTP id p1K0FYKh031828 for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 01:15:34 +0100 Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.4/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p1K0FYcF003035; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 01:15:34 +0100 Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p1K0FYtm003034; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 01:15:34 +0100 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Package Manager Specification discussions X-BeenThere: gentoo-pms@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <19808.23846.525966.607245@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 01:15:34 +0100 To: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-pms] License for code snippets included in PMS X-Mailer: VM 8.1.1 under 23.2.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) From: Ulrich Mueller X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 03edc4fd90c6c1376cf765194b633c33 The PMS document is relased under the CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-3.0 license. This may raise some issues for package managers that want to use some of the included code snippets. Portage and paludis are licensed under GPL-2, and pkgcore seems to be heading towards BSD. Currently, most of the code snippets are short (under 10 lines) and are probably not copyrightable. But this might change in future. Could we put all code snippets under some unrestrictive license please? Like CC0-1.0-Universal? Ulrich