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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: antarus@g.o, mjo@g.o, ulm@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 3/3] dev-vcs/hub: migrate to go-module.eclass
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 23:48:25
Message-Id: 20190911234815.GA21591@whubbs1.dev.av1.gaikai.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 3/3] dev-vcs/hub: migrate to go-module.eclass by Alec Warner
1 On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 04:34:27PM -0700, Alec Warner wrote:
2 > On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 10:39 AM Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote:
3 >
4 > > On 9/11/19 1:21 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
5 > > > +++ b/dev-vcs/hub/hub-2.12.3.ebuild
6 > > > ...
7 > > >
8 > > > LICENSE="MIT"
9 > >
10 > > This license is wrong, as it's pretty much guaranteed to be every time
11 > > you commit one of these packages. I find it pretty troubling that one
12 > > corporation is able to force this stuff through even though it's a
13 > > security and legal hazard for everyone else.
14 > >
15 >
16 > How is it wrong?
17 >
18 > https://github.com/github/hub/blob/master/LICENSE
19
20 The argument is that because of the vendoring, LICENSE= needs to list
21 all licenses for the vendored dependencies that are different from MIT
22 as well.
23
24 Personally I don't have a comment about this, but that's what is being
25 pushed for. I'll let you guys debate this but it isn't really relevant
26 to the eclass. ;-)
27
28 William

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