[csw-maintainers] License / copyright files in packages

[Philip Brown]

On 11/9/10, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski <maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
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> Phil, would you like to suggest a syntax for copyright file references?
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I thought I just did.
grep for /opt/csw/share/doc, in the "i copyright" file.

there are exactly two expected cases for the copyright file.

a) it contains the copyright in its entirety. Stop. Nothing to see here :)

b) it contains a reference to the full copyright file. That file
should live under /opt/csw/share/doc somewhere.

Note that it may NOT always be /opt/csw/share/doc/[softwarename],
since some packages, for valid reasons, keep their docs under
/opt/csw/share/doc/[somethingelse]
It makes the most sense to me, to keep the copyright notice in the
same place as (the rest of the docs for the package)