[arch-dev-public] Updating the licenses package

[Jason Chu]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:20:53 +0300
"Roman Kyrylych" <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2007/3/30, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com>:
> > 2007/3/30, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>:
> > > Hey all,
> > > I actually just came across this page here:
> > > http://www.opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical
> > >
> > > I think we should go through and add some more common ones to the
> > > licenses packages (it's text, it'll compress well).  This comes up
> > > because we probably need an update for the Python license anyway.
> > >
> > > Maybe we can even add all of them?  Only problem is they don't
> > > seem to export plain text, so we can't really automate it... ewww.
> >
> > There's no need to add them all, IMO. Many of them are not used in
> > any of available PKGBUILDs, and some require providing full text
> > (BSD-like, MIT, zlib/libpng), but some most common of them could be
> > added.
> > It's importand to have correct licenses in package. See
> > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/5637 for example.
> > Also, while changing the package, take a look at
> > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/5623
> 
> Oh, and yet one notice: why all directories in /usr/share/licenses are
> capitalized (i.e. RUBY, APACHE)???

It all started with the GPL.  There was GPL, BSD, ... APACHE should
have been APL (I thought that's how I did it originally...).

Almost all of the licenses have a shortened form.

What do you suggest?

Jason
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