On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:17:48 -0600
Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Should LICENSE changes require a revision bump?
No.
Any ebuild should be published with a correct reference to a license.
If you initially publish the ebuild with a bad reference, you simply
correct it later on. It's not as if *you* incorrectly published the
software anew - you just tagged on the wrong license initially, and by
referring to the wrong license, you aren't somehow magically relicensing
the software.
As for the technical bit - when a user cannot install something because
the license is masked by his package manager, and he discovers that the
wrong license was attached, then he can do and should do two things:
1) notify the ebuild's maintainer(s) that the wrong license is being
referred to.
2) unmask the license, confident that the reference in the ebuild is
wrong, now that he's personally checked it.
Kind regards,
JeR
