X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4E9F9A2A.2060806@cisra.canon.com.au> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:48:58 +1100 From: Luke Kendall User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: CC: audit , Subject: Re: Contributing license information? References: <4E4DB7AC.7070702@cisra.canon.com.au> <20110819120318.GB2506@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20110819120318.GB2506@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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? 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. I say that because it contains over a dozen licenses, even though base-files otherwise just contains a few shell scripts and skeleton files from etc/{defaults,postinstall, preremove}. What do you think? Regards, luke -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple