On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Jesse Juhani Jaara <jesse.jaara@gmail.com> wrote:
As the software is Licensed under MIT license you do not have to copy the COPYING file into the package. You only need to copy the COPYING file if you set license=('custom: foobar'), but if the license is one of the licenses included in [core]/licenses (is even in base group) package license=('license_name') is enought. (GPL1/2/3, MIT, APACHE....)
The original package in repos DOES install a COPYING file. For a reason.
All source, data files and other contents of the PROJ.4 package are available under the following terms. Note that the PROJ 4.3 and earlier was "public domain" as is common with US government work, but apparently this is not a well defined legal term in many countries. I am placing everything under the following MIT style license because I believe it is effectively the same as public domain, allowing anyone to use the code as they wish, including making proprietary derivatives.
Though I have put my own name as copyright holder, I don't mean to imply I did the work. Essentially all work was done by Gerald Evenden.
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