[aur-dev] AUR 4 and licensing

[Joris Steyn]

I like this idea, but I don't think it's sound to consider something
GPL-licensed because the author checked a box or accepted the TOC. I doubt
that has any legal significance.

Wouldn't it make more sense to use a mandatory two-line header like below?
The pre-receive hook could enforce that.

# Copyright [year or year range] [author name]
# Distributed under the terms of the [license name]

This is what Gentoo does for ebuilds in its package database. This way the
licensing information isn't lost when the repository is forked.


On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 4:46 PM, David Manouchehri <
david at davidmanouchehri.com> wrote:

> Lukas Fleischer <lfleischer at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > In order to `git push` a package repository, you need to add your SSH
> > public key to the AUR profile which means you need to log into the web
> > interface and accept the ToS. No need for something complicated
> > involving Git hooks and email address filters.
>
> You're right, I forgot about that. The only real purpose of having a hook
> would just be to serve as a reminder.
>
> Johannes L?thberg <johannes at kyriasis.com> wrote:
> > This is Git, not SVN.
>
> Sorry, I mixed my hooks up. Didn't mean to start a fight with that one.
> Both Johannes and Dan are right; it's impossible to have a pre-commit hook
> on the server side, but it's entirely possible to have a pre-receive hook
> on the server side. I believe both would have the same result if you put
> `exit 1` in them though (failing to apply commit).
>