-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/20/2012 03:25 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Ian Stakenvicius <a...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> On 20/12/12 01:12 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>> >>> What about /usr/portage/licenses, for example? Some of the >>> licenses are required to be present on the system if the >>> corresponding software is installed. So users cannot legally remove >>> them. > > Perhaps a better way to phrase that is that some of the licenses claim > that they are required to be present on the system if the > corresponding software is installed. > > Licenses can't make you do things - only laws can make you do things. > Licenses just give you the right to "break" a law. > > I think that this is legally very dubious. If people want to save > copies of license files they can of course do so, but I'm not sure it > is really worth a lot of effort to automate it. But, if somebody > wants to stick it in /var/db/pkg or whatever I guess it is just a few > thousand inodes... I'm pretty happy with only one copy of every license on my system...
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