[aur-dev] AUR 4 and licensing

Johannes Löthberg johannes at kyriasis.com
Sun Apr 12 20:42:47 UTC 2015


On 12/04, Gordian Edenhofer wrote:
>It is possible in git to message the user who is trying to push to the
>repo. Therefore it would be easy to notify git-users that by uploading they
>agree to distribute their PKGBUILD under GPLv3.
>I personally think that this behavior is more appropriate than just asking
>once when the account is created respectively updated. It would remind the
>user each and every time that they must agree to license their files under
>GPL.
>Maybe it might even make sense to combine both proposed solutions.

Showing it during a push would be flawed because then it’s too late for 
them not to agree to it.

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Sincerely,
  Johannes Löthberg
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