From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Love Subject: Re: Question about multiple licenses Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 23:15:35 +0100 Message-ID: <87r2vbh8c8.fsf@albion.it.manchester.ac.uk> References: <681c721c.AEQAPExWoDUAAAAAAAAAAAOtZhgAAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZoSX-@mailjet.com> <87mv6kj7i7.fsf@gmail.com> <873786zlsb.fsf@albion.it.manchester.ac.uk> <87h8wiy0ic.fsf@gnu.org> <874lseqy4m.fsf@albion.it.manchester.ac.uk> <87zia246lw.fsf@gnu.org> <87lglliidc.fsf@gmail.com> <87h8w9l7zl.fsf@igalia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43912) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1drtT5-0003o2-8b for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:15:44 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1drtT0-00071v-Id for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:15:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87h8w9l7zl.fsf@igalia.com> (Andy Wingo's message of "Mon, 11 Sep 2017 14:45:02 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Andy Wingo Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Andy Wingo 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 ...").