Project:Licenses
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| Licenses | |
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| Description | The Licenses project tries to make heads & tails of license terms. |
| Project email | licenses@gentoo.org |
| IRC channel | #gentoo-dev (webchat) |
| Lead(s) | none No lead election date set |
| Member(s) |
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| Subproject(s) (and inherited member(s)) |
(none) |
| Parent Project | Gentoo |
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The Gentoo Licenses project tries to make heads and 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
Useful links
Gentoo
- GLEP 23
- app-portage/elicense lists installed packages with non-accepted licenses
License lists and definitions
- FSF licenses
- OSI licenses
- SPDX open source license registry
- GNU free software & freedoms definition
- Open Source Definition
- Freedoc licenses
- Open Source licenses summarized & explained in plain English
Other projects
- LICENSE files are missing upstream in many projects on github, it is easy to add them.
- dev-util/ninka identifies licenses in source code
- Debian licensecheck tool
- Openembedded License workflow