[aur-general] AUR & Copyright

[Lukáš Jirkovský]

On 7 February 2011 11:58, Ray Rashif <schiv at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 2011/2/7 Lukáš Jirkovský <l.jirkovsky at gmail.com>:
>> I think most PKGBUILDs are too simple to be considered software.
>
> Simple or not, PKGBUILDs are scripts, and hence software.

I don't think it matters whether PKGBUILDs are software or not.

> Magnus Therming mentioned this on another thread, and I believe he
> makes a valid statement when he says the buildscripts are assumed to
> inherit GPL and so need no mention of it.

That sounds to me like saying "all bash scripts have to be under GPL,
because BASH is licensed under GPL".