On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 12:09 AM, Paul Mattal <paul@mattal.com> wrote:

I've started a pet project.. going through and adding licenses for packages without them. Not sure how long I'll be able to keep at it, but I'll just keep going as long as I can stand it.

I encourage you all to add licenses for packages you maintain, if you can, while you're in there updating them. There's MANY packages without them (over 1000). I got through finding licenses for 64 packages in a couple of hours; they're not always easy to track down. It's much easier when you already have the source downloaded and can just look for a COPYING or LICENSE file. Cheat sheet for what we call the various GPL variants in the license=() array:

* (L)GPL - (L)GPLv2 or any later version * (L)GPL2 - (L)GPL2 only * (L)GPL3 - (L)GPL3 or any later version

I just added the license line to the trunk PKGBUILD.. nothing more. So you should get these on your next rebuild.

Just an attempt to contribute some grunt work to the cause.

Thanks Paul! This is good work and definitely appreciated. Once Aaron gets the emails running from the check_* scripts on gerolde that would point things out like this, it would be good to see a decrease in these numbers. We at least made a push a while back to get licenses for everything package in core, correct? -Dan