On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Ian Stakenvicius <a...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 20/12/12 01:12 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> >> What about /usr/portage/licenses, for example? Some of the >> licenses are required to be present on the system if the >> corresponding software is installed. So users cannot legally remove >> them.
Perhaps a better way to phrase that is that some of the licenses claim that they are required to be present on the system if the corresponding software is installed. Licenses can't make you do things - only laws can make you do things. Licenses just give you the right to "break" a law. I think that this is legally very dubious. If people want to save copies of license files they can of course do so, but I'm not sure it is really worth a lot of effort to automate it. But, if somebody wants to stick it in /var/db/pkg or whatever I guess it is just a few thousand inodes... Rich
