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On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 13:36 +0200, Simon Stelling wrote: |
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> Every license which a package in the portage tree depends on gets a package in |
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> the ``txt-licenses/`` category. Its ebuild must install the license text to |
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> ``/usr/shared/licenses/``. The initial version shall be 1 if there is no version |
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> specified. |
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This doesn't make sense to me. I have a copy of every license used in |
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the portage tree already in /usr/portage/licenses - why dup that again? |
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We already have an existing LICENSE keywording in the ebuilds, why not |
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just focus on patching portage to allow a make.conf variable for allowed |
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licenses and block based on that? |
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