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On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 02:08:25AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 27 December 2005 02:01, R Hill wrote: |
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> > AFAIK most licenses need to be included with the distribution of the |
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> > source, not installed on the system after compilation. But I could be |
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> > wrong too. |
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> anyone who installs a program in portage already has a copy of the license on |
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> their system ... $PORTDIR/licenses/ |
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Assuming the tree is locally available (remote, or binpkg's used to |
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generate images)... |
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Lets put it this way; if ebuilds are specifically filtering it out on |
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their own, nobody who wants the licenses install has them. |
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If they're installed via the ebuild, and removed via INSTALL_MASK, |
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everybody can get what they want. So why nuke by default? |
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~harring |
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