"Johnny C. Lam" <lamj@stat.cmu.edu> writes:

> When creating pkgsrc Makefile skeletons, should I be including
> whatever COPYRIGHT and LICENSE files I find in pkg/PLIST?  They seem
> to be necessary if we make binary packages publicly available on
> ftp.netbsd.org, but are unnecessary if users compile everything from
> source and never use binary packages.  Or am I misunderstanding the
> terms of the more common licenses?
> 
> My thanks for any clarifications on this matter.
> 
>      -- Johnny C. Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>
>         Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
>         http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~lamj/

I'd like to see COPYRIGHT/LICENSE files distributed in pkg, so one can
assess licensing terms before contaminating the installation site with
*any* foreign source.