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Project:Licenses
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| Gentoo Licenses Project | |
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| Description | The Gentoo Licenses Project tries to make heads & tails of license terms. |
| Project email | licenses@gentoo.org |
| IRC channel | #gentoo-dev |
| Lead(s) | none No lead election date set |
| Member(s) |
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| Subproject(s) (and inherited member(s)) |
(none) |
| Parent Project | Gentoo |
| Project listing | |
The Gentoo Licenses Project tries to make heads & tails of license terms, so that we can detect conflicts between licenses in packages, and know when it is safe to redistribute distfiles, or include binaries in stages and media.
Disclaimer:
We are programmers, not lawyers. Our evaluation if a particular license is a free software license is only a guideline for Gentoo developers and users. It is not a legal statement. There is also no guarantee that a particular LICENSE variable in an ebuild reflects reality. So don‘t rely on it, but check the license that is included with the package itself.
We are programmers, not lawyers. Our evaluation if a particular license is a free software license is only a guideline for Gentoo developers and users. It is not a legal statement. There is also no guarantee that a particular LICENSE variable in an ebuild reflects reality. So don‘t rely on it, but check the license that is included with the package itself.
Resources
How other projects work with licenses
Useful links
- GLEP 23
- FSF licenses
- OSI licenses
- SPDX open source license registry
- GNU free software & freedoms definition
- Open Source Definition
- Open Source licenses summarized & explained in plain English
- Freedoc licenses
- LICENSE files are missing upstream in many projects on github, it is easy to add them.