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From: Maurice van der Pot <griffon26@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about licenses
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:32:27
Message-Id: 20050615162649.GN5946@kfk4ever.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about licenses by Chris Gianelloni
1 On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:04:39AM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
2 > > > What about all these /usr/share/doc/*/COPYING* files? Are they
3 > > > necessary if all licenses are in licenses/ ?
4 > > See first point. You want to read the license _before_ installing stuff
5 >
6 > Actually, I can see the point in not needing to copy these files, as the
7 > license is already specified in the ebuild and should be available in
8 > $PORTDIR/licenses, so this is a redundancy.
9
10 Exactly. Same with the INSTALL files we all know: "... These are generic
11 installation instructions. ...". It doesn't add anything, so don't
12 install it.
13
14 Maurice.
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17 Maurice van der Pot
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about licenses Chris Bainbridge <chris.bainbridge@×××××.com>