License groups

Welcome to the License Groups working page.

This is a small team in Gentoo that try to make heads & tails of license terms, so that we can detect conflicts between licenses in packages, and know when it's safe to redistribute distfiles, or include binaries in stages and media.

Useful links: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0023.html http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/ http://www.opensource.org/licenses http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html http://freedomdefined.org/ http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_6c950b46c50fe72ebc5e650bbf70f77c.xml