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.
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. Carsten
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