Ralf, actually the license has to accompany every download. I spent a lot of time with NAG about requiring license and license text (in each file). Their lawyers required it. So I don't think it is sufficient to refer to github. The license (whatever its name) has to be included in the download.
Tim On Thursday, November 30, 2023 at 11:52:22 AM UTC-5 Dima Pasechnik wrote: > Windows can be told to be case-sensitive in a given folder: > > https://www.howtogeek.com/354220/how-to-enable-case-sensitive-folders-on-windows-10/ > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 4:22 PM Ralf Hemmecke <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Waldek, > > > > now that you suggest that LICENSE.AXIOM can be downloaded from github, > > I think we can savely remove "license/" completely and write a note to > > the end of the LICENSE file that the orginal NAG license file is in the > > very first commit of the git repository. > > > > It would be safe to check this out even on case insensitive file systems. > > > > Ralf > > > > On 11/30/23 17:07, Waldek Hebisch wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 06:01:41PM +0800, Qian Yun wrote: > > >> Now that "LICENSE" is committed, there's a minor problem: > > >> > > >> On case-insensitive filesystems, "LICENSE" file is colliding > > >> with "license/" directory. > > >> > > >> I have confirmed that unpacking fricas-master.zip (from GitHub) > > >> on Windows causes problem: "LICENSE" is created while "LICENSE.AXIOM" > > >> is not. (Similar problem might happen for git checkout.) > > >> > > >> So considering rename the "license/" directory? (e.g. "licence") > > > > > > Well, I am not sure if that is really a problem. One reason to > > > keep license/LICENSE.AXIOM is because people where told that > > > orignal NAG license is there. Renaming would defeat this. > > > OTOH Windows and Mac folks can fetch LICENSE.AXIOM from Github, > > > I think that is enough. So as long as download do not produce > > > errors I think that we can live with this. > > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/0e045f4b-09c9-4e00-9cd0-db82c57ad470%40hemmecke.org > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/dc4937b8-794b-42ed-ab6e-91b40eca6763n%40googlegroups.com.
