[csw-maintainers] License for makefiles and other packages component

[Trygve Laugstøl]

Philip Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 08:02:48PM -0400, Ben Walton wrote:
>> Just my 2 cents for the evening.  I really am ok with this if we want
>> to blanket license (for simplicity or sanity or whatever) all
>> descriptions under the same license as mGar itself (GPLv2).
> 
> that would be inappropriate. for multiple reasons, but also for reasons
> that the Gnu foundation itself raises; pure GPL is unsuited for
> documentation and non"code" entities. thats why the 
> "gnu free documentation license" or whatever was invented.
> 
> I would like to suggest that we dont flood the mailing list with "from
> scratch" discussion, becuase it will make it very, VERY noisy, for the next
> few weeks. I'd like maintainers to stay in the habit of actually reading
> this list? :)
> 
> I would like to suggest that we table discussion, until Trygve chimes in on
> what he remembers from the meeting. That would save a lot of time and
> bandwidth. Otherwise, probably an IRC meeting would be best to get license
> talks "Jumpstarted". Then we finalize things on the list?
> (after posting logs of the irc session)

AFAIR we didn't agree on anything other than "it would be nice".

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Trygve