Re: [Fink-devel] new field in .info files

2003-01-17 Thread Sylvain Cuaz
Le vendredi, 17 jan 2003, à 16:37 Europe/Paris, David R. Morrison a écrit : In a discussion on #fink today, we arrived at the following plan. A non-opensource license would either be labeled License: Restrictive (as done currently), or License: Restrictive/Distributable The second one w

Re: [Fink-devel] new field in .info files

2003-01-17 Thread David R. Morrison
In a discussion on #fink today, we arrived at the following plan. A non-opensource license would either be labeled License: Restrictive (as done currently), or License: Restrictive/Distributable The second one would be used when it is OK for Fink to distribute a binary, even though the lic

Re: [Fink-devel] new field in .info files

2003-01-16 Thread Ben Hines
On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 12:00 PM, Max Horn wrote: Hrm, right as well. So why not split the Restrictive license class into two: Restrictive RestrictiveButDistributable (well, obviously with better names). That would seem more logical to me than a seperate field. Sounds good to me

Re: [Fink-devel] new field in .info files

2003-01-16 Thread David R. Morrison
OK, suppose we just introduce the license category "Distributible", and in the docs explain that Distributible covers non-open source licenses which allow Fink to distribute binaries. -- Dave --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com

Re: [Fink-devel] new field in .info files

2003-01-16 Thread Max Horn
At 14:33 Uhr -0500 16.01.2003, David R. Morrison wrote: Hi Max. I've just gone through this process of figuring out which things to put on the exclude list for the third time. It is really painful, with the current tools. Yes, but that "just" means the tools have to become better. They would

Re: [Fink-devel] new field in .info files

2003-01-16 Thread David R. Morrison
Hi Max. I've just gone through this process of figuring out which things to put on the exclude list for the third time. It is really painful, with the current tools. The maker of the bindist doesn't check each individual package to make sure that the license was correctly assigned, right? We le

Re: [Fink-devel] new field in .info files

2003-01-16 Thread Max Horn
At 10:36 Uhr -0500 16.01.2003, David R. Morrison wrote: With an eye towards constructing an automated build system for the binary distribution one of these days, I'd like to propose a new field for fink .info files: BinaryDistribution: True/False or Yes/No This field would only be consulted if t

Re: [Fink-devel] new field in .info files

2003-01-16 Thread Damian Steer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "David R. Morrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With an eye towards constructing an automated build system for the binary > distribution one of these days, I'd like to propose a new field for fink > .info files: > > BinaryDistribution: True/False or

Re: [Fink-devel] new field in .info files

2003-01-16 Thread Christian Schaffner
On Donnerstag, Januar 16, 2003, at 04:36 Uhr, David R. Morrison wrote: BinaryDistribution: True/False or Yes/No Sounds good. I would go for True/False and default to False. This field would only be consulted if the package is labeled License: Restrictive and in that case, it would indicate

[Fink-devel] new field in .info files

2003-01-16 Thread David R. Morrison
With an eye towards constructing an automated build system for the binary distribution one of these days, I'd like to propose a new field for fink .info files: BinaryDistribution: True/False or Yes/No This field would only be consulted if the package is labeled License: Restrictive and in that