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On 12/20/2012 03:25 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On 20/12/12 01:12 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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>>> |
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>>> What about /usr/portage/licenses, for example? Some of the |
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>>> licenses are required to be present on the system if the |
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>>> corresponding software is installed. So users cannot legally remove |
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>>> them. |
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> |
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> Perhaps a better way to phrase that is that some of the licenses claim |
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> that they are required to be present on the system if the |
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> corresponding software is installed. |
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> |
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> Licenses can't make you do things - only laws can make you do things. |
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> Licenses just give you the right to "break" a law. |
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> |
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> I think that this is legally very dubious. If people want to save |
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> copies of license files they can of course do so, but I'm not sure it |
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> is really worth a lot of effort to automate it. But, if somebody |
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> wants to stick it in /var/db/pkg or whatever I guess it is just a few |
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> thousand inodes... |
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I'm pretty happy with only one copy of every license on my system... |
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- -ZC |
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