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Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:45:46 +1000
From: Luke Kendall <luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au>
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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
>
>   

Okay.  At some stage, then, I'll look into how to create a Cygwin package.

luke


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