On Fri, 3 Jan 2014 00:53:17 +0100
Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> >>>>> On Thu, 2 Jan 2014, Ryan Hill wrote:
> 
> > In case it's helpful here's what FOSSology[1] has to say about some
> > common packages that people have uploaded to their demo server.
> 
> I don't get your point here. The licenses of a package have to be
> checked in any case. Why would it be more complicated to check the
> full set of files in the tarball, instead of the subset of files that
> the package will actually install?

I was trying to see how many packages contain licenses that aren't already in
LICENSES, assuming these would be ones that we would have to have a srcdist USE
flag for.  Rich said that is was rare.  I'm finding every package I've checked
so far would need one.

Either way I don't care what you do.


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