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On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 09:53:53 -0700 Joshua Baergen |
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<joshuabaergen@g.o> wrote: |
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| Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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| > So you propose we go through and change every package in the tree |
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| > that uses BSD or MIT (or GPL with the copyright disclaimer)? |
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| I propose that we decide on the correct way of doing things first, |
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| then decide a plan of action from that. And that includes an opinion |
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| from someone who knows what they're talking about, whether it be |
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| legal advice or a clarification to the point of the licenses |
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| directory. |
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The correct way of doing things is to follow existing practice, even if |
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it hasn't been formally documented. We've had licences with |
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placeholders in the tree for over three years now. |
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| As Carsten pointed out one e-mail down in the thread, there's no real |
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| documentation about what licenses should be, so currently it's a "he |
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| said-she said" issue. |
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No, it's a "what have we been doing previously?" issue. Getting |
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licences right is one of those common knowledge things that you're |
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expected to know, documented or not. |
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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (King of all Londinium) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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