FYI, I removed the cygwin-licensing list from the recipient list. Please keep this thread on the cygwin list, unless you provide a new package, in which case cygwin-apps is the appropriate mailing list to discuss this further.
On Oct 20 09:38, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 20 14:48, Luke Kendall wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >On Aug 19 11:09, Luke Kendall wrote: > > >>Soon, I will have prepared a list of the location of every license > > >>file in every Cygwin package. My motivation is to make it easy for > > >>people to find the license information, if they need it. > > >> > > >>(Preparing this information has required a lot of work on my part, > > >>so I would be happy if something could be done to make it easy to > > >>keep the information up to date as packages are added and modified.) > > >> > > >>What is the best way to contribute the license-location information > > >>so it can be integrated into Cygwin? > > > > > >Just create a new package for the distro which keeps the information > > >and maintain it. Somebody will have to keep the information up to date > > >anyway. > > > > > > > > >Corinna > > > > > > > Is usr/share/doc/common-licenses/ within the "base-files" package, > > supposed to be the place where all license information is collected? > > Should I just use that? > > It's a good place for this, yes. > > > I only today noticed > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-06/msg00275.html > > > > I believe usr/share/doc/common-licenses/ lists many licenses that > > are not used in the base-files package. > > That was not the intention. The intention was to collect licenses > used by the sum of Cygwin distro packages. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
