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From: Jason Stubbs <jasonbstubbs@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] License Checking
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 02:08:24
Message-Id: 200311231108.22042.jasonbstubbs@mailandnews.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] License Checking by Jason Stubbs
1 On Sunday 23 November 2003 10:59, Jason Stubbs wrote:
2 > On Sunday 23 November 2003 07:43, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 > > On Saturday 22 November 2003 11:56, Jason Stubbs wrote:
4 > > > xfree contains LICENSE="X11 MSttfEULA"
5 > > > qt contains LICENSE="QPL-1.0 | GPL-2"
6 > > >
7 > > > What other lexical forms are there? The ebuild howto doesn't even
8 > > > mention the above construct. Will I find something like "(LIC1 LIC2) |
9 > > > LIC3"?
10 > >
11 > > there has been no real position on how to declare multiple licenses ...
12 > > thus devs have just done whatever ...
13 > > some may say | means one thing, some may say it means another, the truth
14 > > is, it has never officially been declared thus it really means nothing
15 > > when looking at the portage tree as a whole
16 >
17 > Created new bug #34146
18
19 As a side note, I found a couple of ebuilds that are a bit of a concern.
20
21 app-emulation/point2play
22 LICENSE="Aladdin" # not sure about that .. comments?
23
24 dev-python/python-ldap
25 dev-python/python-ldap-py21
26 LICENSE="public-domain" #NOTE: win32 section is under questionable license
27
28 Created a bug for these too. #34147
29
30 Jason
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