[aur-general] license
I was reading on the Arch WIKI about licencing in AUR, My package has the BSD license. it says to copy the license to /usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/COPYING how do i do that in the PKGBUILD?
license=('BSD') add this in pkgbuild. 2009/6/7 nathan owe. <ndowens04@gmail.com>
I was reading on the Arch WIKI about licencing in AUR, My package has the BSD license. it says to copy the license to /usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/COPYING how do i do that in the PKGBUILD?
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nathan owe. wrote:
I was reading on the Arch WIKI about licencing in AUR, My package has the BSD license. it says to copy the license to /usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/COPYING how do i do that in the PKGBUILD?
Something like: install -Dm644 COPYING ${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/COPYING You can always look at other PKGBUILDs the ABS tree to get ideas on how things should be done. Allan
I do not see BSD in /usr/share/licenses/common and only two packages out of 400+ on my system provide it. Is that intentional? Or is that because they've been installed with names like "COPYING"?
Ray Rashif wrote:
I do not see BSD in /usr/share/licenses/common and only two packages out of 400+ on my system provide it. Is that intentional? Or is that because they've been installed with names like "COPYING"?
BSD licenses are not all the same (they include a copyright notice at the top from a vague memory). Because of this, we can not provide a "standard" version. That is why packages with a BSD license always should install the license to /usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/ Allan
Shouldn't it be encouraged to at least install it as /usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/BSD?
Ray Rashif wrote:
Shouldn't it be encouraged to at least install it as /usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/BSD?
I don't think it matters. Also, please leave some context from previous emails when you reply. Allan
I don't think it matters.
Also, please leave some context from previous emails when you reply.
Allan
Ahh alright. Sorry, lazy habit =p
Ray Rashif wrote:
I do not see BSD in /usr/share/licenses/common and only two packages out of 400+ on my system provide it. Is that intentional? Or is that because they've been installed with names like "COPYING"?
BSD licenseS are a special case, is more common to call "BSD style license" rather than "The BSD license" ;) Many modifications are applied to it in differents software. For more information and history see here [#1] [#1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D
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Allan McRae
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corvolino
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Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
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nathan owe.
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Ray Rashif