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On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 14:21 -0400, A. Khattri wrote: |
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> Im working on an ebuild for a package and Im not sure what license to use. |
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> The package is Copyright Company "X" but has this underneath: |
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> ## This software may be freely copied, modified and redistributed |
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> ## without fee for non-commerical purposes provided that this license |
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> ## remains intact and unmodified with any distribution. |
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> ## |
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> ## There is no warranty or other guarantee of fitness of this software. |
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> ## It is provided solely "as is". The author(s) disclaim(s) all |
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> ## responsibility and liability with respect to this software's usage |
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> ## or its effect upon hardware, computer systems, other software, or |
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> ## anything else. |
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> ## |
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> Last time I looked, there were some 800 or so files in |
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> /usr/portage/license/ - so which one would I use? |
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You make a new one for this package, since it specifically says, |
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"provided that this license remains intact and unmodified with any |
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distribution" which would mean their copyright information, too. Yeah, |
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it sucks, but that's life. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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x86 Architecture Team |
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Games - Developer |
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