Bug 139743

Summary:	xorg-x11-7.0 license problem (too many)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	cazzantonio <alpiturchi>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	lis of packages

Description cazzantonio 2006-07-09 02:32:15 UTC

LICENSE field of new xorg-7.0 modular eubuilds contains an incredible number of different licences. 
Every component of it has a different kind of license and there are more than 100 ebuild to check if you want to control what kind of licenses you are installing...
Since many of those licenses are almost identical would it be impossible to group them under a single kind of license? (at least a few "big" groups)

Since I'm here asking for it have you ever thought about introducing a few different license categories for every package? like "gpl-compatible", "bsd-like"... just what the end-user whant to know...
This is just an idea but it would make happy every kind of users who check for licenses of what they install... not much I suppose but still an important feature to add...

Comment 1 cazzantonio 2006-07-09 02:34:01 UTC

Created attachment 91261 [details]
lis of packages

This is a list of the packages (modules of xorg-x11) that have each e different (but very,very similar) license

Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-07-09 02:38:45 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)

(In reply to comment #0)
> Since many of those licenses are almost identical would it be impossible to
> group them under a single kind of license? (at least a few "big" groups)

No, it wouldn't. License needs to match the real license. The rest is duplicate of Bug 17367.