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From: Luke-Jr <luke-jr@g.o>
To: "Robin H.Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>, gentoo-dev@g.o
Cc: gentoo-core@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Ebuild license question
Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 01:28:40
Message-Id: 200305100128.35342.luke-jr@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Ebuild license question by "Robin H.Johnson"
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4 I noticed this a while ago. See bug 18951.
5 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18951
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7 On Friday 09 May 2003 08:01 pm, Robin H.Johnson wrote:
8 > [copied to -core because of license stuff, please reply on -dev]
9 >
10 > I'm putting together an ebuild for libcap (bug #2333), and I ran into
11 > something in the tree.
12 >
13 > The license included with it wasn't one I had seen myself before so I
14 > was checking if it was in $PORTAGE/licenses. I see that all of libcap,
15 > PAM and PWDB have identical licenses (except for the same of the
16 > package).
17 >
18 > The license in question seems to a dual BSD/GPL license.
19 >
20 > Instead of creating a new libcap license file, I think we should
21 > abstract the package name in PAM/PWDB and point all 3 items to this.
22 > Possible name is $PORTAGE/licenses/BSD_GPL
23 >
24 > Comments/For/Against/Flames?
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