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On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 04:34:27PM -0700, Alec Warner wrote: |
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> On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 10:39 AM Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote: |
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> > On 9/11/19 1:21 PM, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> > > +++ b/dev-vcs/hub/hub-2.12.3.ebuild |
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> > > ... |
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> > > LICENSE="MIT" |
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> > This license is wrong, as it's pretty much guaranteed to be every time |
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> > you commit one of these packages. I find it pretty troubling that one |
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> > corporation is able to force this stuff through even though it's a |
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> > security and legal hazard for everyone else. |
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> How is it wrong? |
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> https://github.com/github/hub/blob/master/LICENSE |
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The argument is that because of the vendoring, LICENSE= needs to list |
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all licenses for the vendored dependencies that are different from MIT |
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as well. |
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Personally I don't have a comment about this, but that's what is being |
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pushed for. I'll let you guys debate this but it isn't really relevant |
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to the eclass. ;-) |
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William |