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From: Chris Bainbridge <chris.bainbridge@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about licenses
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:43:03
Message-Id: 623652d5050615113873104599@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about licenses by Maurice van der Pot
1 On 15/06/05, Maurice van der Pot <griffon26@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:04:39AM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
3 > > > > What about all these /usr/share/doc/*/COPYING* files? Are they
4 > > > > necessary if all licenses are in licenses/ ?
5 > > > See first point. You want to read the license _before_ installing stuff
6
7 The obvious thing to do is to have a licenses package that install all
8 of the licenses somewhere. If someone wants to check a license they
9 emerge it first. /usr/portage/licenses does seem unnecessarily big for
10 the portage tree.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about licenses Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>