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Le 04/09/2009 20:52, David Leverton a écrit : |
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> Is that really a problem? |
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To me, it's not. :) |
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> I admit to not being around for the original design |
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> decisions, but I would assume that the purpose of having LICENSE in ebuilds |
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> is to tell users what licence the package is under (whether or not it's |
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> accurate is a different matter), and the purpose of having the licences |
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> themselves in the tree is so that it's easy for users to look them up and |
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> decide whether they want to accept the conditions or not. For that purpose, |
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> the exact list of credits is irrelevant. |
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That was just an example to show that unless we go through a precise and |
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thorough audit of all the packages we offer, the LICENSE variable is |
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_informational_ at best. |
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Having tools to manipulate those variables is very misleading since |
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users will (rightfully) assume that we've done our homework and that |
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upstream did too. |
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I don't intend to stop anyone from creating new tools, but I just want |
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us all to realize the limits of what is being done here. |
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Cheers, |
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Rémi |
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