On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Ebuilds in the Portage tree must be licensed under the GPL. This is > part of the Gentoo Social Contract [1], so I guess it won't change > anytime soon. > > And IMHO, we would be ill-advised to allow different licenses for > ebuilds in the tree, because that would imply that we cannot copy code > from one ebuild to another (or from ebuild to eclass) any more. >
Speaking as an individual trustee, I tend to agree. If there are specific pains associated with not being able to submit patches upstream or such, please do point them out and I'm sure we'll consider what can be done to accommodate this. However, if this really is a one-off situation then we're probably better-off if we just ask individual contributors to re-license when needed. I'd think the only thing in the portage tree upstream would be interested in would be patches (including sed operations). Rich
