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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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>> 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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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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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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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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Rich |
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