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authorMichał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>2018-11-28 10:33:57 +0100
committerGöktürk Yüksek <gokturk@gentoo.org>2018-12-19 23:55:36 -0500
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parentgeneral-concepts/licenses: Warn about GPL-n+ etc. (diff)
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general-concepts/licenses: warn about GitHub license guesser
Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Göktürk Yüksek <gokturk@gentoo.org>
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@@ -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