X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:50:45 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Contributing license information? Message-ID: <20111025135045.GA22635@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4EA60A43.3050804@cisra.canon.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4EA60A43.3050804@cisra.canon.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Oct 25 12:00, 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 instead of creating a new package? Sure, why not, if that's ok with David. You can also rip out the usr/share/doc/common-licenses directory from base-files and create a licenses package with all licenses. Just as you two want it. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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