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| author |   Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2024-04-29 12:35:13 +0200 |
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| committer | Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2024-04-29 20:34:09 +0200 |
| commit | 5788aaadff50c5f29290cf7aa5d32c3932cd7e1f (patch) | |
| tree | 6967f4e7be576e94a88a57de5b7c1bcffd63e906 | |
| parent | No longer mention PORTDIR (diff) | |
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general-concepts/licenses: Licenses must be plain text
Historically we had some PDF files in the repository, but the last
of them was removed in 2011.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | general-concepts/licenses/text.xml | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/general-concepts/licenses/text.xml b/general-concepts/licenses/text.xml index 182cfb6..939b429 100644 --- a/general-concepts/licenses/text.xml +++ b/general-concepts/licenses/text.xml @@ -230,11 +230,11 @@ indicates <c>GPL-2+</c> license: <body> <p> -If your package's license is not already in the tree, you must add the -license before committing the package. When adding the license, use a -plain text file (UTF-8 encoded) if at all possible. Some licenses are -PDF files rather than plain text <d/> this should only be done if we -are legally required to do so. +If your package's license is not already in the tree, you must add the license +before committing the package. When adding the license, use a plain text file +(UTF-8 encoded), because non-text files +<uri link="::general-concepts/tree/#What Belongs in the Tree?">do not belong +in the repository</uri>. Finally you need to check if your license should be added to a license group as listed in the repository's <c>profiles/license_groups</c> file. For more information see |