Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Add operator + for licenses (EAPI-4 ?)
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:02:55
Message-Id: 20090905160245.54564214@snowcone
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Add operator + for licenses (EAPI-4 ?) by Maciej Mrozowski
1 On Sat, 5 Sep 2009 16:03:25 +0200
2 Maciej Mrozowski <reavertm@××××××.fm> wrote:
3 > > Why not use EAPI 4 to make sure people have done that homework then?
4 >
5 > Because it won't make *upstream* do their homework.
6
7 If upstream won't tell you the licence under which something is
8 distributed, how does Gentoo know whether it's allowed to mirror source
9 tarballs or include the package on binary CDs?
10
11 --
12 Ciaran McCreesh

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