Re: [gentoo-dev] paper on oss-qm project

2010-05-08 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 05/08/10 22:11, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > what problems do you see w/ licensing ? > > IMHO, each branch simply has to follow the upstream's license. i have yet to see easy cases with licensing. i haven't thought about it in detail yet, tough, to be honest. > simply normalize: don't use letters

[gentoo-dev] Package managers and new repositories formats

2010-05-08 Thread Auke Booij
Hey, As part of Google Summer of Code, together with two other students and our mentors, I'm looking into supporting non-ebuild repository formats in existing package managers. Currently, in Portage these are supported by externally generating ebuilds from available metadata in advance, and then u

Re: [gentoo-dev] paper on oss-qm project

2010-05-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Sebastian Pipping schrieb: Hi, > interesting concept. i'd like to comment on a few details: > > - licensing seems not be addressed, yet. >licensing can kill everything, it needs consideration. what problems do you see w/ licensing ? IMHO, each branch simply has to follow the upstream'