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From: Ondrej Vasik <ovasik@redhat.com>
To: Eric Bischoff <ebischoff@nerim.net>
Cc: Scott Garman <scott.a.garman@intel.com>,
	       docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: COPYING file is just a symlink in sgml-common-0.6.3.tgz
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:52:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1295970849.6315.4.camel@dhcp-24-233.brq.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <82107414-5894-401F-95D7-0DD95F8A4093@nerim.net>

Eric Bischoff wrote:
> Le 25 janv. 2011 à 01:16, Scott Garman a écrit :
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm working on packaging various docbook-utils for the Yocto Project - a framework for creating custom embedded Linux distributions. As part of our packaging process, we try to identify the license the package is released under, and keep track of a hash of the license information. Most commonly we use the COPYING file included with the sources.
> > 
> > In the case of sgml-common-0.6.3.tgz, the COPYING file is a symlink to /usr/share/automake/COPYING (likewise for the INSTALL document). I could not find anything else in the tarball that would serve to represent its software license.
> 
> Scott,
> 
> I would be willing to restart managing the source code for this package, but I don't even have the account password at RedHat/SourceWare.org anymore, and I haven't been able to contact any admin there.
> 
> I know that sounds pretty stupid.
> 
> > I realize this tarball was created way back in 2001, but if there is a future version of it, including a real text file would be quite helpful.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Scott Garman

I'll arrange new sgml-common project pages on fedorahosted.org (this or
next week) ... 

Greetings,
         Ondrej Vasik

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-25 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-25  0:17 Scott Garman
2011-01-25 15:40 ` Eric Bischoff
2011-01-25 15:52   ` Ondrej Vasik [this message]
2011-01-25 16:44     ` Eric Bischoff
2011-01-26  8:48       ` Ondrej Vasik
2011-01-26  9:36         ` Eric Bischoff
2011-01-26  9:54           ` Ondrej Vasik
2011-01-26 12:59             ` Eric Bischoff
2011-02-01 12:54         ` Ondrej Vasik
2011-01-25 20:31     ` Scott Garman

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