On Saturday 20 December 2008 16:46:46 Sebastian Rother wrote: > Dear po...@-mailinglist, > > I noticed during using gentoo linux that gentoo (and some others) > store a copy of the license file a programm refers to at the local HDD. > > By this I mean that if 30 packages are GPLed the GPL gets installed one > time at the HDD. > > I am unsure about the OpenBSD Port-System related to this. > As I did "find /usr -name *GPL*" only one file was found (installed by > qt3 in /usr/local/share/doc/qt3/LICENSE.GPL). > > Another example for the lgpl would > be /usr/local/share/gtk-doc/html/bonobo-activation/lgpl.html. > > > I am unsure if that (even I am no friend of the GPL) confirms to the > GPL or other licenses ports/packages are licensed under. > > Would it propably make more sense to may save each license just once? > I think specialy embedded-devices may would profit. Normal computers > have enought diskspace but even if that's true I am unsure if it's ok > to may not intall a licensefile and if that is ok with the GPL/LGPL > and/or other licenses. > > > Kind regards, > Sebastian
Given that the v2 GPL is under 18K and the v3 GPL is about 35K I think worrying about disk space is fairly pointless. Using the v3 GPL it takes about 700K to store 20 copies. Even most embedded systems have a few M free. Those working on embedded systems are likely to do things like omit the games part of OpenBSD, or compiler, etc thus saving a lot more space. --STeve Andre'
