commit: 5788aaadff50c5f29290cf7aa5d32c3932cd7e1f Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> AuthorDate: Mon Apr 29 10:35:13 2024 +0000 Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> CommitDate: Mon Apr 29 18:34:09 2024 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/devmanual.git/commit/?id=5788aaad
general-concepts/licenses: Licenses must be plain text Historically we had some PDF files in the repository, but the last of them was removed in 2011. Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm <AT> gentoo.org> general-concepts/licenses/text.xml | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/general-concepts/licenses/text.xml b/general-concepts/licenses/text.xml index 182cfb6..939b429 100644 --- a/general-concepts/licenses/text.xml +++ b/general-concepts/licenses/text.xml @@ -230,11 +230,11 @@ indicates <c>GPL-2+</c> license: <body> <p> -If your package's license is not already in the tree, you must add the -license before committing the package. When adding the license, use a -plain text file (UTF-8 encoded) if at all possible. Some licenses are -PDF files rather than plain text <d/> this should only be done if we -are legally required to do so. +If your package's license is not already in the tree, you must add the license +before committing the package. When adding the license, use a plain text file +(UTF-8 encoded), because non-text files +<uri link="::general-concepts/tree/#What Belongs in the Tree?">do not belong +in the repository</uri>. Finally you need to check if your license should be added to a license group as listed in the repository's <c>profiles/license_groups</c> file. For more information see
