Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:03:18 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: Contributing license information?
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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

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