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From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Which license?
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 19:13:46
Message-Id: 1146164971.25222.0.camel@cicada.nbk
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Which license? by "A. Khattri"
1 On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 14:21 -0400, A. Khattri wrote:
2 >
3 > Im working on an ebuild for a package and Im not sure what license to use.
4 > The package is Copyright Company "X" but has this underneath:
5 >
6 >
7 > ## This software may be freely copied, modified and redistributed
8 > ## without fee for non-commerical purposes provided that this license
9 > ## remains intact and unmodified with any distribution.
10 > ##
11 > ## There is no warranty or other guarantee of fitness of this software.
12 > ## It is provided solely "as is". The author(s) disclaim(s) all
13 > ## responsibility and liability with respect to this software's usage
14 > ## or its effect upon hardware, computer systems, other software, or
15 > ## anything else.
16 > ##
17 >
18 >
19 > Last time I looked, there were some 800 or so files in
20 > /usr/portage/license/ - so which one would I use?
21
22 I'd go for AS-IS.
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