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Peter Cech wrote: |
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> What leads you to believe the license texts distributed in portage tree |
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> are legaly binding with respect to the packages? Each packgage carries |
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> (or at least should carry) its license embeded inside. In my |
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> understanding, licanse pointers in ebuilds are purely informative and |
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> allow you to check the terms of the license (and decide if the license |
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> is acceptable) before you actually perform any legaly binding action |
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> (like running 'emerge app-foo/bar'). |
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> Regards, |
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> Peter Cech |
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Well, from the documentation, all I have to go on is: |
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"This variable specifies what license the program is covered under, i.e. |
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GPL-2, BSD, etc..."[1] |
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I interpret that as the actual license of the software. It's not made |
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clear that LICENSE points to a generalized representation (although I |
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find that solution much more rational) or that it points to the actual |
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software license. |
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It appears that the people who feel most comfortable with the current |
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solution are those who have been around a good deal of time, which would |
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indicate to me that the reason that things are done now was made a while |
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ago but never documented. |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=1 |
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