Summary: | [Future EAPI] Provide a way to query licenses (LICENSEDIR) | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Hosted Projects | Reporter: | Michał Górny <mgorny> |
Component: | PMS/EAPI | Assignee: | PMS/EAPI <pms> |
Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | esigra, tsmksubc |
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Bug Depends on: | |||
Bug Blocks: | 174380, 373349 |
Description
Michał Górny
2015-11-21 18:57:52 UTC
(In reply to Michał Górny from comment #0) > So far the potentially-valid uses I have seen are: > [...] > > In some cases, the actual license wasn't included in the distribution > package. This looks like it would affect only corner cases. If a package installs its license or displays it during installation, then I would assume that it would normally include it in the tarball. If there are really packages where that isn't the case, then the license can be fetched separately via SRC_URI. > [...] > In particular, I think we could deploy a solution similar to the one used by > distfiles. Create a 'license' subdirectory inside worktree, and copy/symlink > appropriate license files there. See above, this is useful only for a few packages, while creating useless overhead for all others. WONTFIX? wfm. |