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On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 13:44 +0200, Patrick Lauer wrote: |
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> > Do we only add those licenses to define valid names for the LICENSE |
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> > variable? |
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> AFAIK the license variable is not really used (someone correct me if I'm mistakne, please) |
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It is used by some games ebuilds, for sure. |
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> > What about all these /usr/share/doc/*/COPYING* files? Are they |
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> > necessary if all licenses are in licenses/ ? |
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> See first point. You want to read the license _before_ installing stuff |
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Actually, I can see the point in not needing to copy these files, as the |
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license is already specified in the ebuild and should be available in |
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$PORTDIR/licenses, so this is a redundancy. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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