From: Scott Garman <scott.a.garman@intel.com>
To: "ovasik@redhat.com" <ovasik@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Bischoff <ebischoff@nerim.net>,
"docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.org"
<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 20:31:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D3F3318.5030001@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1295970849.6315.4.camel@dhcp-24-233.brq.redhat.com>
On 01/25/2011 07:54 AM, Ondrej Vasik wrote:
> 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
>
That would be great. I really appreciate your efforts.
Thanks,
Scott
--
Scott Garman
Embedded Linux Distro Engineer - Yocto Project
Intel Open Source Technology Center
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-25 20:31 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
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 [this message]
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