commit:     8ad5c097240eadd919146ffdab6c55ee6175f719
Author:     Michał Górny <mgorny <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
AuthorDate: Wed Nov 28 09:33:57 2018 +0000
Commit:     Göktürk Yüksek <gokturk <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Thu Dec 20 04:55:36 2018 +0000
URL:        https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/devmanual.git/commit/?id=8ad5c097

general-concepts/licenses: warn about GitHub license guesser

Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny <AT> gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Göktürk Yüksek <gokturk <AT> gentoo.org>

 general-concepts/licenses/text.xml | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/general-concepts/licenses/text.xml 
b/general-concepts/licenses/text.xml
index aa2ca74..c647871 100644
--- a/general-concepts/licenses/text.xml
+++ b/general-concepts/licenses/text.xml
@@ -43,6 +43,12 @@ LICENSE="|| ( foo bar )"
 <title>Determining the correct license</title>
 <body>
 
+<warning>
+Do not trust the license indicated by GitHub or other sites that use
+automation to guess the license! The information presented may be
+incomplete and/or incorrect.
+</warning>
+
 <p>
 To establish the correct value of <c>LICENSE</c>, you need to trace
 the licenses of all installed files. Normally, the licenses of output

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