Am 16.06.2012 18:57, schrieb Kwpolska:
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.
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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.
I allways do a
ls /usr/share/licenses/common/
which gives me
AGPL Apache Artistic2.0 CDDL EPL FDL1.2 GPL GPL3 LGPL2.1 LPPL
PerlArtistic PSF W3C
AGPL3 APACHE CCPL CPL FDL FDL1.3 GPL2 LGPL LGPL3 MPL PHP
RUBY ZPL
if I am not sure about if a license is common in Arch's sense or not.
As you see, MIT is not common. So the license file is needed in this case.
Regards Stefan
