On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 12:09 AM, Paul Mattal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've started a pet project.. going through and adding licenses for packages > without them. Not sure how long I'll be able to keep at it, but I'll just > keep going as long as I can stand it. > > I encourage you all to add licenses for packages you maintain, if you can, > while you're in there updating them. There's MANY packages without them > (over 1000). I got through finding licenses for 64 packages in a couple of > hours; they're not always easy to track down. It's much easier when you > already have the source downloaded and can just look for a COPYING or > LICENSE file. Cheat sheet for what we call the various GPL variants in the > license=() array: > > * (L)GPL - (L)GPLv2 or any later version > * (L)GPL2 - (L)GPL2 only > * (L)GPL3 - (L)GPL3 or any later version > > I just added the license line to the trunk PKGBUILD.. nothing more. So you > should get these on your next rebuild. > > Just an attempt to contribute some grunt work to the cause.
Thanks Paul! This is good work and definitely appreciated. Once Aaron gets the emails running from the check_* scripts on gerolde that would point things out like this, it would be good to see a decrease in these numbers. We at least made a push a while back to get licenses for everything package in core, correct? -Dan
