Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 04:22:24 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: copyright notices for ports/packages Message-ID: <3162.809608944@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Aug 1995 03:09:22 PDT." <199508281009.DAA04757@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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> (1) Require the ports to put them in a fixed location, for example,
> ${PREFIX}/share/${PKGNAME}/Copyright. This can be done by using a
> post-install target.
Counter-proposal:
Each port must register its copyright notices into:
${PREFIX}/share/copyrights/${PKGNAME}
Registry of a copyright notice may be either:
1. A special port-specific copyright unique from any available
"boilerplate" copyright, such as the GPL.
2. A link to a boilerplate copyright in ${PREFIX}/share/copyrights
(e.g. "${PREFIX}/share/copyrights/${PKGNAME}/license -> ../GPL").
If the target of a link does not exist, the port install target
should copy one from a known location in the ports tree into
place first. Thus only one copy of a boilerplate license
is retained.
Packages, however, still remain a whole 'nother ball-o-wax. For one
thing, we always have to have a copyright available for a package. We
can't just rely on them, we need some way of making sure that those
copyrights are *there* after the package is installed or we're
technically in violation of lots of stuff.
For that I suggest a slightly different spin on the approach taken.
Add a special flag to pkg_create for indicating the copyright file,
but have a special syntax for it like this:
pkg_create ... -C @<template>|filename
Where @<template> is a reference to something in
${PREFIX}/share/copyrights directly (e.g. "GPL" or "BSD") and filename
is a package-local copyright of some sort, for which handling is
pretty straight-forward. If the @<template> form is seen, however,
two things actually happen: First, a @pkgdep is automatically inserted
into the packing list referencing our special "copyrights package"
which we'll have to make sure to always distribute with every package
collection (wildcard CATEGORIES field), then a @exec and @unexec pair
are automatically added to create/delete the copyright link.
That'd pretty much do it. We just need to create a little
"copyrights" port/package that installs all the stock copyrights into
${PREFIX}/share/copyrights and we can move from there.
Jordan
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