[csw-maintainers] License / copyright files in packages

Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski maciej at opencsw.org
Fri Nov 5 18:48:49 CET 2010


No dia 5 de Novembro de 2010 17:42, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> escreveu:
> On 11/5/10, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski <maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
>>
>> On the other hand, I learned about the "i copyright" file that is
>> meant to contain the license file.
>
> that is a misstatement.
>
> It was previously our (loooong time) policy, that the "i copyright"
> file, contain the actual license file.
>
> However, some time in the not-too-distant-past it was agreed that it
> was acceptible for the "i copyright" file to only reference the full
> copyright file, as delivered in the package.

Does the reference have a defined syntax?  Checkpkg could de-refer it
and check if the referred license file is present in the package.


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