From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8808 invoked by alias); 20 Oct 2011 07:49:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 8530 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Oct 2011 07:48:59 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:48:43 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 16E6C2CBDA0; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:48:40 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:49:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Contributing license information? Message-ID: <20111020074840.GD23092@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4E4DB7AC.7070702@cisra.canon.com.au> <20110819120318.GB2506@calimero.vinschen.de> <4E9F9A2A.2060806@cisra.canon.com.au> <20111020073807.GC23092@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20111020073807.GC23092@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-10/txt/msg00382.txt.bz2 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