On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 18:38 +, Chris Bainbridge wrote:
> On 15/06/05, Maurice van der Pot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:04:39AM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > > > > What about all these /usr/share/doc/*/COPYING* files? Are they
> > > > > necessary if all licenses
On 15/06/05, Maurice van der Pot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:04:39AM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > > > What about all these /usr/share/doc/*/COPYING* files? Are they
> > > > necessary if all licenses are in licenses/ ?
> > > See first point. You want to read the lic
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:04:39AM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > > What about all these /usr/share/doc/*/COPYING* files? Are they
> > > necessary if all licenses are in licenses/ ?
> > See first point. You want to read the license _before_ installing stuff
>
> Actually, I can see the point in
Chris Gianelloni wrote:
>>Symlink? If MIT == MetaKit, then:
>>ln -s MIT MetaKit
> CVS doesn't allow symlinks
Ouch... right :) Forgot about that.
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On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 13:44 +0200, Patrick Lauer wrote:
> > Do we only add those licenses to define valid names for the LICENSE
> > variable?
> AFAIK the license variable is not really used (someone correct me if I'm
> mistakne, please)
It is used by some games ebuilds, for sure.
> > What about
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 13:31 +0200, Krzysiek Pawlik wrote:
> Torsten Veller wrote:
> > Why do we add a license to the licenses/ dir?
>
> ;)
>
> > Does the language of the license matter? (selfhtml is in german)
>
> IMVHO: yes. I don't understand German, but English yes.
>
> > Aren't MIT and Meta
Jon Portnoy wrote:
> You're right; chances are this is a mistake on the part of whoever
> wrote/committed the MetaKit ebuild, it probably had a 'COPYING' file and
> whoever reviewed it didn't recognize the MIT license. File a bug
Done: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96173
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On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 02:00:57PM +0200, Krzysiek Pawlik wrote:
> Jon Portnoy wrote:
> >>Symlink? If MIT == MetaKit, then:
> ^^
> >>ln -s MIT MetaKit
> > I don't know about this specific case but generally speaking licenses
> > that're similar in language and intent have
Jon Portnoy wrote:
>>Symlink? If MIT == MetaKit, then:
^^
>>ln -s MIT MetaKit
> I don't know about this specific case but generally speaking licenses
> that're similar in language and intent have very small (often cosmetic)
> differences; if there is even the slightest d
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 13:18 +0200, Torsten Veller wrote:
> Why do we add a license to the licenses/ dir?
Because there should be an easy way to find licenses?
And you can do "emerge search foo", then read the license and decide
wether you want to install foo.
> And in addition: When should a licen
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 01:31:46PM +0200, Krzysiek Pawlik wrote:
> Torsten Veller wrote:
> > Why do we add a license to the licenses/ dir?
>
> ;)
>
> > Does the language of the license matter? (selfhtml is in german)
>
> IMVHO: yes. I don't understand German, but English yes.
>
> > Aren't MIT a
Torsten Veller wrote:
> Why do we add a license to the licenses/ dir?
;)
> Does the language of the license matter? (selfhtml is in german)
IMVHO: yes. I don't understand German, but English yes.
> Aren't MIT and MetaKit and ... the same license?
> Aren't X11 and cdegood and JamesClark and ...
Why do we add a license to the licenses/ dir?
And in addition: When should a license be added to licenses/ ?
Do we only add those licenses to define valid names for the LICENSE
variable?
There are over 3MB in nearly 500 files. How will those licenses be
classified if ACCEPT_LICENSES (GLEP 23) is
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