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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] fixing LICENSE issues without reporting bugs
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 10:53:38
Message-Id: 50B1F885.4030009@gentoo.org
1 The discussion came up in the thread
2 [gentoo-dev] open season on other-dev's packages -- policy change?
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4 License issues seem trivial enough (at least regarding the functionality
5 of an ebuild) to be fixed without permission of the actual maintainer.
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7 Even if the fix is wrong the ebuild remains intact.
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9 If someone feels uncomfortable about this proposal we could limit this
10 permission to the license herd.
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12 Less bugs, quicker fixes.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] fixing LICENSE issues without reporting bugs Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>