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| From: | Jonas Stein <jstein@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o> | ||
| Cc: | licenses@g.o, qa <qa@g.o> | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Solving the problem of huge number of wrong LICENSES=*GPL-[23] | ||
| Date: | Sun, 26 Aug 2018 22:40:30 | ||
| Message-Id: | 6866a424-033d-1849-a4b2-22f373a8599e@gentoo.org | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Solving the problem of huge number of wrong LICENSES=*GPL-[23] by Ulrich Mueller |
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| 1 | >> 3. make repoman warn whenever non-specific variant is used, telling |
| 2 | >> developers to verify whether it's x-only or x+. |
| 3 | |
| 4 | > Repoman could check for a comment in the LICENSE line as well, I guess? |
| 5 | |
| 6 | There are already tools to guess licenses in sourcetrees see |
| 7 | "How other projects work with licenses" on |
| 8 | https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Licenses |
| 9 | |
| 10 | Such a tool could help a lot to list the potentially wrong LICENSES. |
| 11 | It would be great, if we do not have to invent the wheel again. |
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| 13 | -- |
| 14 | Best, |
| 15 | Jonas |
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