[pacman-dev] Couple of questions about libalpm doc, and pacman/copyright

[jjacky]

Hey there,

So I've been working on a little app using libalpm, and I have a couple 
of questions. Hopefully it's okay to ask this here.

First off, a quick question regarding the doc. Looking at the source 
code i see functions are nicely commented, but all I could find as 
documentation was this man page: 
https://www.archlinux.org/pacman/libalpm.3.html
Since it's totally possible, did I actually miss something (obvious), or 
are there no (generated) doc publicly available?

It's certainly not a problem, especially since I find the libalpm/pacman 
source code to be really clean/easy to read/follow; It's quite simple to 
figure out how things work and how to use them, so congratulations on 
that, great work. (I wish my code looked as nice.)

But while I read pacman's code a lot to see how things are done, I 
happen to actually also full copy/paste stuff in my app, including 
complete functions (e.g. the whole parsing of the config file, 
strtrim(), humanize_size(), etc).

So I wonder, what's the right thing to do when it comes to this, and 
copyright? I should probably mention that I'm very new at all this, so 
I'm not sure, for instance, what should be included in the source files 
of my app, on its copyright/version message, etc

I'll release my stuff on GPL3+, and I believe pacman is GPL2+, so based 
on what I read it's compatible/allowed, I just wonder what's the proper 
way to do it. Like, should I include something like this: Copyright (C) 
2012 Pacman Development Team

Lastly, while doing all this I came up with 2 (very) minor patches for 
pacman, so I'll share those. But I'm guessing it would be better as 
separate emails/threads, so I'll do it that way.

Thanks,
-jjacky