Subject: Re: binary packages and LICENSE documentation
To: Johnny C. Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>
From: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 04/01/1999 23:59:34
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Johnny C. Lam wrote:
> Are you advocating the same thing I am?  I think the licensing terms
> for most software require that the COPYRIGHT/LICENSE files be included
> in any binary distribution, which is what all those binary packages on
> ftp.netbsd.org are.  So, I think that one solution to this is to add
> the appropriate files to pkg/PLIST, so those files are included in any
> binary package made with our package tools.

Basically what LICENSE/ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES (any spelling aside :-) do when
compiling a package from source? Yes, this should probably be included
into pkg_add as well.


 - Hubert

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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>