[openbeos] Re: Haiku distro guidelines [was: Haiku VmwareBuild Environment]

François Revol wrote:
>> On 2008-04-16 at 04:52:29 [+0200], Jorge G. Mare <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>     
>> wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 21:47 -0400, Karl vom Dorff wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Fair enough, though the disk images at Haiku-files.org don't have 
>>>> a
>>>> license attached with them. What about binutils, gdb included in 
>>>> the
>>>> operating system? Just like in my case, You can't call the whole 
>>>> thing
>>>> BSD/MIT. At best, mixed, with an explanation of the mixed 
>>>> licenses...
>>>>         
>>> I believe you are right in that we would need to include the 
>>> license
>>> text for each of them, something that apparently we have not been 
>>> doing
>>> so far. In all honesty, I don't know why.
>>>       
>> Some packages have the license built-in. Since gdb was mentioned: on 
>> startup it shows a short copyright notice and "show copying" will 
>> give you 
>> the complete GPL. Most command line tools (at least all GNU tools, I 
>> think) 
>> tell you how they are licensed when invoked with "--help" or "--
>> version". 
>> For the GNU tools the printed text includes a URL to the GPL. Not 
>> sure if 
>> it is legally still required to include the license text for them.
>>     
>
> Zeta had them (mostly at least) as files in /etc/licences/.
>   

Would it be of any help if I repackaged the optional packages in
haiku-files.org to include their respective license text files? That's
something that even I can and would be willing to do.

Cheers,

Koki

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