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On 01/01/2014 09:40 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> On 01/01/2014 09:13 PM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: |
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>>> What use case is there for having the LICENSE apply to anything else? |
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>> Some of us do redistribute the entire source package, so it does matter. |
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>> If it doesn't matter to you as a user then you can always leave it |
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>> unset and you remain completely oblivious to the change. |
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> I know, but if you take a pristine source tarball from upstream and |
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> distribute it to some third party, why should portage be involved? |
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Portage fetches the files for me, and I assume if I am not prompted for |
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license issues when it does, then I can redist the source and bins. |
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Clearly that is not always the case. |
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- -Zero |
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> More metadata about the licenses is obviously a good thing and I'm not |
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> saying we shouldn't figure out a way to make it available in the tree |
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> (we should). But LICENSE is first and foremost a user interface to the |
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> package manager. I don't like the idea of overloading the portage user |
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> interface for use cases entirely outside the purview of portage. |
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> My objection is not strong, in any case, if this solves some real |
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> problem and is the best available way to do it. |
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