-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/01/2014 09:40 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 01/01/2014 09:13 PM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: >> >>> What use case is there for having the LICENSE apply to anything else? >> >> Some of us do redistribute the entire source package, so it does matter. >> If it doesn't matter to you as a user then you can always leave it >> unset and you remain completely oblivious to the change. > > I know, but if you take a pristine source tarball from upstream and > distribute it to some third party, why should portage be involved?
Portage fetches the files for me, and I assume if I am not prompted for license issues when it does, then I can redist the source and bins. Clearly that is not always the case. - -Zero > > More metadata about the licenses is obviously a good thing and I'm not > saying we shouldn't figure out a way to make it available in the tree > (we should). But LICENSE is first and foremost a user interface to the > package manager. I don't like the idea of overloading the portage user > interface for use cases entirely outside the purview of portage. > > My objection is not strong, in any case, if this solves some real > problem and is the best available way to do it. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJSxNJvAAoJEKXdFCfdEflK2TsP/iIsgz/DQ8DEG7er+aqslg3z LJFbEQ0/lBJ5/eSWrDcPeFhgHrHkXIuliZFgQJ2saMqLY9FnyZA1vIHwOIHlC14E hs43qyU2rfT2VwzrUIMjvwOBP9EzDFi/dSEYWxy9WnLKSEWgXADGNLMw42LujAGg s2f3UFTULdTaQUr9lhrbx1Vh91WtJrUBTkbkks0u2yuJSHZBMNFDrPqJ/LhqjHda ZlhW18RXH/dsy/gCtYBfKysiiiY/jiKiAGMnVW5N597LO2jT7G3BBvexYe3tIyFi 96jhGLXQB2G1GzsNGw9f09VoCIvRz2OfXNZhHzMtDwIbjAvNxof9uAlHirAtlm7s 9K6OTdVt/zPsakosiCASQZm1mmde1rF0zy3x5/AKm6l9O3fuLZlJaQ60oJsVGKie z9FPJW9tJRRGNdHBzoL3PBuvavKQKlVF8IbhpE/7BCJQl5hcUmaV1K0when0FiGH koOLo4iR6llPfTMk17GMQ+RQINA9uauFJoSemUSjgM4haMxveZ8QcN+nXvJDUDX6 vbd4ywprX9S4/O5whk1M99CzvUJkjb9WjqGYtZgzxQy+THwnJ/O8CPCXSRa5Ig0Z KehsdJ6tf2U6y6BxBFSNaOTM56kSNijBg8hhtBXJEE/7JB+AEVDmRV3+psXIZSa9 PcJPp65fClCzPTa7fWU0 =CklE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
