[csw-maintainers] License and copyright notice

Dagobert Michelsen dam at opencsw.org
Thu Feb 5 23:25:25 CET 2009


Hi,

Am 05.02.2009 um 21:45 schrieb William Bonnet:
>> This strikes me as very dangerous. it will eventually need to  
>> packages
>> shipping with a wrong (old/obsolete) version of a license when a  
>> maintainer
>> doesnt notice it has changed.
>>
>> I think it is important to copy the license file from the
>> (upstream)src distribution, directly into the package, every time.
>>
>
> After spending some minutes thinking :) you are right.

A first draft of the documentation is ready at
   <https://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/gar/index.php? 
title=Copyright>
   <https://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/gar/index.php? 
title=Packaging>
The committed stuff is not fully functional yet, because I have to do
dynamic gspec-files first.


Best regards

   -- Dago



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