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From: Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Installing COPYING or LICENSE files
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 13:32:30
Message-Id: 200512271415.06394.carlo@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Installing COPYING or LICENSE files by Mike Frysinger
1 On Tuesday 27 December 2005 08:08, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > anyone who installs a program in portage already has a copy of the license
3 > on their system ... $PORTDIR/licenses/
4
5 My point was that it is often not the license of the copyright holder, because
6 the copyright notice included in many licenses names the author of a specific
7 application.
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10 Carsten