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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: New project: Licenses
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 11:05:02
Message-Id: 528F3A52.60904@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: New project: Licenses by Ulrich Mueller
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4 On 11/21/2013 04:21 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
5 >>>>>> On Thu, 21 Nov 2013, hasufell wrote:
6 >
7 >>> For the time being, it will be listed as a top-level project.
8 >>> (There were some ideas that Licenses could be a subproject of
9 >>> another TLP, but so far this hasn't worked out.)
10 >
11 >> It should be a subproject of QA.
12 >
13 > Indeed, that's one of the two TLPs that were suggested. The past
14 > QA disliked having Licenses as their subproject, though. It depends
15 > on how the role of QA is defined: If it is seen as primarily
16 > technical, then Licenses (which is largely non-technical) doesn't
17 > fit so well.
18 >
19 > Ulrich
20 >
21
22 ACCEPT_LICENSE is a user-controlled variable that has global effect on
23 a gentoo installation.
24 If our tree is not consistent in terms of thoroughness of license
25 information, then that decreases user experience and we'll likely lose
26 people who take "free software" seriously.
27 So to me this is definitely a QA issue.
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