[arch-dev-public] Status Report 2007-10-22

Roman Kyrylych roman.kyrylych at gmail.com
Tue Oct 23 04:41:59 EDT 2007


2007/10/23, Jason Chu <jason at archlinux.org>:
> This is just to you...
>
> > I'll update the script I have that finds these bad licenses to do
> > case-insensitive searches as well - that should knock off a few
> > that're wrongly marked "bad".  Oh, I guess I'll make it accept "MIT",
> > "BSD", "Python", "zlib", and "libpng" as valid licenses, but ensure
> > those packages reference /usr/share/licenses/ in their build function,
> > since they have to install the modified version of the license.
>
> Do you have a copy of your script?  Does it work against package files?  If
> so, we might as well just port your updates to the licensepkg rule of
> namcap and we can run that on entire repositories.
>

AFAIR Travis' script was written in bash, so it would be nice if it
would go to devtools.
On the other hand, namcap seems to be more appropriate place for that
functionality.

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)


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