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Re: Contributing license information?


FYI, I removed the cygwin-licensing list from the recipient list.

Please keep this thread on the cygwin list, unless you provide
a new package, in which case cygwin-apps is the appropriate mailing
list to discuss this further.

On Oct 20 09:38, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct 20 14:48, Luke Kendall wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > >On Aug 19 11:09, Luke Kendall wrote:
> > >>Soon, I will have prepared a list of the location of every license
> > >>file in every Cygwin package.  My motivation is to make it easy for
> > >>people to find the license information, if they need it.
> > >>
> > >>(Preparing this information has required a lot of work on my part,
> > >>so I would be happy if something could be done to make it easy to
> > >>keep the information up to date as packages are added and modified.)
> > >>
> > >>What is the best way to contribute the license-location information
> > >>so it can be integrated into Cygwin?
> > >
> > >Just create a new package for the distro which keeps the information
> > >and maintain it.  Somebody will have to keep the information up to date
> > >anyway.
> > >
> > >
> > >Corinna
> > >
> > 
> > Is usr/share/doc/common-licenses/ within the "base-files" package,
> > supposed to be the place where all license information is collected?
> > Should I just use that?
> 
> It's a good place for this, yes.
> 
> > I only today noticed
> > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-06/msg00275.html
> > 
> > I believe usr/share/doc/common-licenses/ lists many licenses that
> > are not used in the base-files package.
> 
> That was not the intention.  The intention was to collect licenses
> used by the sum of Cygwin distro packages.


Corinna

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