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From: Brent Shaffer <betterbrent@google.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 18:20:45 +0000
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Subject: Re: [alpine-user] What / Where is the License?
To: William Pitcock <nenolod@dereferenced.org>
Cc: alpine-user@lists.alpinelinux.org
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That makes sense! If there was an official page describing the license
situation, that would be perfect. Something companies can point their legal
departments to if/when asked about it.

In the meantime we can use the command. Thanks guys.

- Brent

On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 9:13 AM William Pitcock <nenolod@dereferenced.org>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 12:21 PM, Brent Shaffer <betterbrent@google.com>
> wrote:
> > I must be going crazy. On the about page, FAQ, and in the source code, I
> > cannot find any recording of what the LICENSE is for Alpine Linux. Is
> this
> > intentional, or am I missing something?
>
> Linux distributions are combined works, and therefore the 'license' is
> a combination of all software packages installed on the system.
>
> You can ask apk to tell you what licenses apply to your installation:
>
>     apk info | xargs apk info -q --license | sort | uniq
>
> While I understand that this isn't a good answer for a lawyer, it is
> unfortunately, the actually correct answer.
>
> We could, and probably should, add a page to the alpine website
> explaining how licensing applies to a distribution, as this comes up a
> lot.
> Something like https://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/ would be a
> reasonable starting point for inspiration.
>
> William
>

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<div dir=3D"ltr">That makes sense! If there was an official page describing=
 the license situation, that would be perfect. Something companies can poin=
t their legal departments to if/when asked about it.=C2=A0<div><br></div><d=
iv>In the meantime we can use the command. Thanks guys.<br><div><div><br></=
div><div><div>- Brent</div></div></div></div></div><br><div class=3D"gmail_=
quote"><div dir=3D"ltr">On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 9:13 AM William Pitcock &lt=
;<a href=3D"mailto:nenolod@dereferenced.org">nenolod@dereferenced.org</a>&g=
t; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 =
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 12:21 PM, Brent Shaffer &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:bette=
rbrent@google.com" target=3D"_blank">betterbrent@google.com</a>&gt; wrote:<=
br>
&gt; I must be going crazy. On the about page, FAQ, and in the source code,=
 I<br>
&gt; cannot find any recording of what the LICENSE is for Alpine Linux. Is =
this<br>
&gt; intentional, or am I missing something?<br>
<br>
Linux distributions are combined works, and therefore the &#39;license&#39;=
 is<br>
a combination of all software packages installed on the system.<br>
<br>
You can ask apk to tell you what licenses apply to your installation:<br>
<br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 apk info | xargs apk info -q --license | sort | uniq<br>
<br>
While I understand that this isn&#39;t a good answer for a lawyer, it is<br=
>
unfortunately, the actually correct answer.<br>
<br>
We could, and probably should, add a page to the alpine website<br>
explaining how licensing applies to a distribution, as this comes up a<br>
lot.<br>
Something like <a href=3D"https://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/" rel=3D"no=
referrer" target=3D"_blank">https://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/</a> woul=
d be a<br>
reasonable starting point for inspiration.<br>
<br>
William<br>
</blockquote></div>

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