Subject: Re: Missing licenses
To: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
From: Johnny C. Lam <jlam@pkgsrc.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/30/2007 14:13:23
Greg Troxel wrote:
>   > And, secondly, why is it GNU-GPL-v[23], the "GNU-" bit is
>   > unnecessary. Or maybe we should call the BSD ones
> 
> It's necessary and correct.  GPL stands for General Public License.  The
> FSF includes GNU when describing it; see the title on
> http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.
> 
>   Shouldn't copies of all licenses be in pkgsrc/licenses?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> And I think we aren't yet adding uncommented LICENSE= tags to packages
> for free licenses.

Okay, I think I made a mistake for the Courier packages.  Should I 
comment out the LICENSE=gnu-gpl-v3 lines in those packages?

	Thanks,

	-- Johnny C. Lam