[csw-maintainers] Licence file handling proposal

[Philip Brown]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:22:11AM +0100, William Bonnet wrote:
> |-- opt
>    `-- csw
>        `-- share
>            `-- licences
>                |-- Apache_License_2.0_full_text.txt
>                |-- Apache_License_2.0_desc.txt
>                |-- GPL_2.0_full_text.txt
>                |-- GPL_2.0_desc.txt
>                |-- GPL_3.0_full_text.txt
>                `-- GPL_3.0_desc.txt
> 
> 2/ Use reference to theses files from installed packages (when 
> applicable), and create and entry under /opt/csw/share/licences for each 
> package

for MOST of our packages, this is NOT applicable. the license file MUST be
shipped with the package, for GPL'd packages, i believe.


> Doing this  will reduce the output /garbage/ when installing a list of 
> software under gpl.

well, a common location for this stuff is not what fixes that issue.
In contrast, the following bit does:

> The short description can be like this :
> 
> This software is distributed under the GNU General Public Licence V2 as published
> by the Free Software Foundation.  See the file /opt/csw/share/licences/foo/GPL_V2.0.txt
> for the conditions under which this software is made available. 

This was already agreed upon (having the "i copyright" file say 
  "go read this file here") and there are already packages that do this.