On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 01:31:46PM +0200, Krzysiek Pawlik wrote: > Torsten Veller wrote: > > Why do we add a license to the licenses/ dir? > > ;) > > > Does the language of the license matter? (selfhtml is in german) > > IMVHO: yes. I don't understand German, but English yes. > > > Aren't MIT and MetaKit and ... the same license? > > Aren't X11 and cdegood and JamesClark and ... the same license? > > Should the licenses/ dir be cleaned? > > (Should placeholders be used as in MIT?) > > Symlink? If MIT == MetaKit, then: > ln -s MIT MetaKit >
I don't know about this specific case but generally speaking licenses that're similar in language and intent have very small (often cosmetic) differences; if there is even the slightest difference it (legally) qualifies as a different license and probably really should be included separately to be safe -- Jon Portnoy avenj/irc.freenode.net -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
