On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Jesse Juhani Jaara <[email protected]> wrote: > As the software is Licensed under MIT license you do not have to copy > the COPYING file into the package. You only need to copy the COPYING > file if you set license=('custom: foobar'), but if the license is one of > the licenses included in [core]/licenses (is even in base group) package > license=('license_name') is enought. (GPL1/2/3, MIT, APACHE....)
The original package in repos DOES install a COPYING file. For a reason. > > All source, data files and other contents of the PROJ.4 package are > available under the following terms. Note that the PROJ 4.3 and earlier > was "public domain" as is common with US government work, but apparently > this is not a well defined legal term in many countries. I am placing > everything under the following MIT style license because I believe it is > effectively the same as public domain, allowing anyone to use the code as > they wish, including making proprietary derivatives. > > Though I have put my own name as copyright holder, I don't mean to imply > I did the work. Essentially all work was done by Gerald Evenden. > > -------------- > > Copyright (c) 2000, Frank Warmerdam You need one with BSD and MIT. They (at least BSD does) force you to insert a copyright line. And so, every package under such licenses has a file in /usr/share/licenses. -- Kwpolska <http://kwpolska.tk> stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html GPG KEY: 5EAAEA16 | Arch Linux x86_64, zsh, mutt, vim. # vim:set textwidth=70:
