* Patrick Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 license be added to licenses/ ? > > When at least one ebuild uses a license that is not already there?
Ok, here is a license: <http://rafb.net/paste/results/j88sYC87.html> I couldn't decide if this one is present already. All i have checked are slightly different. Maybe someone knows ;) If it is not in licenses/, can someone suggest a name for this one? > > There are over 3MB in nearly 500 files. How will those licenses be > > classified if ACCEPT_LICENSES (GLEP 23) is implemented? > I guess groups ... OSI approved, "free", commercial, ... Classification <-> groups, sure. But how? How can this be done with 500 files? Who wants to do this? > > Aren't X11 and cdegood and JamesClark and ... the same license? > > Maybe there's one paragraph changed - I haven't looked at them yet. I don't know how to diff them efficiently. I put every word in in a line of its own. X11 is different - but cdegood and JamesClark differ in something like "ask cdegroot" and "ask James Clark". -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
