[csw-maintainers] License / copyright files in packages

Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski maciej at opencsw.org
Fri Nov 5 18:39:25 CET 2010


I've just learned that our release manager is not aware of a policy
requiring to put license files into /opt/csw/share/doc/foo/license.
Currently, checkpkg requires that and if the file is not present,
prints:

# See http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/wiki/CopyRight
# -> CheckpkgTag('CSWfoo', 'license-missing', '/opt/csw/share/doc/foo/license')

On the other hand, I learned about the "i copyright" file that is
meant to contain the license file.

Should we reconcile that and settle on one policy?

Maciej


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