Petteri Räty wrote: > Petteri Räty wrote: > >>R Hill wrote: >> >> >>>Daniel Ahlberg wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>* if ebuild installs COPYING and/or INSTALL into doc. >>> >>> >>>Is this actually important? There are a hell of a lot of ebuilds that fail >>>under this rule. I'd like to start filing patches for some of the packages >>>in >>>this list so I'm interested in knowing what's worth fixing and what's being >>>pedantic. >>> >> >> >>Not a blocker but just useless. Filing patches for ebuilds doing this is >>greatly appreciated by at least me. >> >>Regards, >>Petteri > > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113680 > > So is there a policy about [not] installing the COPYING or LICENSE files > already? If there isn't one, I propose we make a decision about this to > have uniform behaviour across the tree. > > Regards, > Petteri >
Looking at the thread I don't see anyone opposing not installing for example a copy of GPL-2 or the generic INSTALL file. So could we write a policy somewhere not to these duplicated files when we are not legally required to install these files? That should satisfy any conserns raised. Regards, Petteri
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