[csw-maintainers] License / copyright files in packages

[Philip Brown]

On 11/5/10, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski <maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>

None have been defined that I recall.
Which is in some ways appropriate, because SOMETIMES, for very short
licenses, it is just fine to contain the license itself in "i
copyright", with no separate license file.

But it's pretty trivial to just "grep /opt/csw/share/doc copyright", after all.