Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Half of the firmware packages in tree install to wrong directory
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2013 09:45:50
Message-Id: 20758.6851.91884.755228@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Half of the firmware packages in tree install to wrong directory by "Michał Górny"
1 >>>>> On Sat, 9 Feb 2013, Micha³ Górny wrote:
2
3 > I don't think that solves the license problem properly. Say, if user
4 > doesn't want non-free software, he's going to have the whole package
5 > masked. He'd have to work-around license + savedconfig.
6
7 > Now that I look at it, it seems that the ebuild doesn't even put all
8 > necessary licenses into LICENSE. I may be wrong but the git repo seems
9 > to have a lot of non-standard licenses.
10
11 Yes, it is a mess and it changes often. You can find an attempt to
12 disentangle it in bug 318841.
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14 Ulrich