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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Virtuals don't have a license
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:19:24
Message-Id: 19271.39584.531180.44770@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
1 Virtual packages don't install any files, so there's nothing where a
2 license could apply to. Therefore LICENSE should be the empty string
3 for them. (This must not be confused with the license for the ebuild
4 itself, which is GPL-2 and is in the ebuild's header.)
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6 The issue becomes more important together with ACCEPT_LICENSE, since
7 the user shouldn't be required to accept anything for installation of
8 a virtual.
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10 If there are no objections, I'll remove all licenses from the virtual
11 category (or rather ask fauli to do it with his keywording script).
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13 Similar for HOMEPAGE which should be the empty string too.
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15 Ulrich