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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.
>
>   

Okay.  So in reply to your later email, I will plan to provide the added 
information about licenses into the base-files package, instead of 
creating a new one.  (I hope I have understood you correctly!)

Can I ask a related question: for the few shell scripts and /etc files 
provided in base-files: what license are they under?  The package 
contains lots of licenses, as we've been discussing, but I couldn't find 
any indication of which license applies to the actual non-license files 
in base-files itself!

Regards,

luke

> Corinna
>
>   


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