[gentoo-dev] Re: Removal of the as-is (so-called) license

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Mon, 19 May 2014, Ulrich Mueller wrote:

> So, as soon as the remaining packages are fixed, I am going to
> remove the deprecated as-is license from the Portage tree.

Finally, all done! There is some remaining cleanup (see bug 436214),
but no ebuild has "as-is" in its LICENSE variable any more. Therefore,
I have removed the licenses/as-is file from the Portage tree.

The full statistic:

702 packages with "as-is" have been updated in total, starting in
September 2012. Their license information was changed to:

   390 free software licenses:
        71 GPL-* / LGPL-* (possibly plus additional free licenses)
       175 BSD / BSD-2 / HPND / ISC / MIT / public-domain
        19 metapackage
       125 other free

   270 non-free licenses:
        15 EULA license group
        81 all-rights-reserved (no license)
        27 freedist / free-noncomm
       147 other non-free

    42 packages last-rited

Thanks to all developers and users who have helped with updating and
auditing of packages, especially to the members of the licenses team
for helpful discussions in some of the more complicated cases.

Ulrich