From: Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
To: Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Question about multiple licenses
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 23:15:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r2vbh8c8.fsf@albion.it.manchester.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h8w9l7zl.fsf@igalia.com> (Andy Wingo's message of "Mon, 11 Sep 2017 14:45:02 +0200")
Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com> writes:
> More concretely... if this is necessary (and I suspect but don't know
> that it is,) probably the easiest thing would be for each package to
> install a copyright file in its output derivations. Then a "guix pack"
> would include them automatically. It would be good to symlink/dedup
> common copyright files of course, but that can be a later step.
>
> Andy
Exactly (for generalized values of "a copyright file" unless you
amalgamate multiple ones like Debian does). There's a limit to simple
deduplication if "this notice" that you need to ship includes a
copyright notice as well as the licence text ("Copyright 2017 Fred
Bloggs ...").
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-12 22:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-26 7:40 Question about multiple licenses Arun Isaac
2017-08-28 10:45 ` Alex Vong
2017-08-28 17:25 ` Arun Isaac
2017-08-28 17:29 ` Efraim Flashner
2017-08-29 6:30 ` Arun Isaac
2017-09-01 11:43 ` Dave Love
2017-09-02 16:54 ` Alex Vong
2017-09-07 16:21 ` Dave Love
2017-09-03 11:45 ` Arun Isaac
2017-09-04 14:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-07 16:20 ` Dave Love
2017-09-10 20:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-11 11:29 ` Alex Vong
2017-09-11 12:45 ` Andy Wingo
2017-09-12 22:15 ` Dave Love [this message]
2017-09-12 22:13 ` Dave Love
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