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Benj. Mako Hill wrote:
<quote who="Simon Schampijer" date="Fri, Feb 20,
2009 at 01:06:19PM +0100">
> we did show a full license in the Control Panel before. The path was
> hard coded to where OLPC had placed the GPL license. What can we do to
> meet the expectations of all the distributions that want to ship sugar?
It would be a great thing if we got the major distributions to agree on
a place to put common licenses. Debian puts them in
'/usr/share/common-licenses'. I don't know where Red Hat puts them.
RedHat does not optimize common licenses at all.
Each package bears a copy of its own license, which is typically
installed in /usr/share/doc/<pkgname>/COPYING or similar.
If we got agreement in those two places and on a list of common
licenses
(even if one group just decides to symlink), we could get a majority of
distributions once the changes propogate.
Seems like a great idea to me... But I think it already came up some
time ago, and I vaguely remember that RH legal blocked it because the
license itself -- not just a symlink to it -- had to accompany the
package.
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