David.Comay at Sun.COM wrote: >> A number of packages have a copyright file that basically says that this >> software is licensed under the GPL or LGPL and that you should have got a >> copy of the license text "with the program" >> >> To me this isn't the license and in such cases we should also include the >> license text in the copyright file (or at least include gpl.txt in the >> package). That's my view but I can see it may be a bone of contention. >> >> What's the consensus on this? Is the following text enough or do we need to >> add the license text? > > Although we've been inconsistent with this in SFW, the full GPL license text > (with the usual preamble before it) should be used in the SVR4 copyright file > rather than the shortened form.
Right. As SFW packages are updated. They should use the full License text in the copyright file to meet the new standards. Full license text is also required in contrib repo packages per the process here: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/sw-porters/contributing/jucrprocess/ BTW. These are not consensus decisions. These are legal guidelines. Cheers, Jim
