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

On 2008-04-16 at 20:44:00 [+0200], "Jorge G. Mare (aka Koki)" 
<koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Currently the optional package zips are just unzipped to some place on the 
image (/boot/home for the ported stuff). So the license would end up there, 
too. I'd rather have a final solution, like the one I've proposed. If we 
can agree on that and on a simple file format for those copyright/license 
descriptions, then the creation and addition of those files would be most 
welcome. I was thinking of a format like this:

Package:                FooBar
Version:                7.3
Copyright:              1973 - 2007, John Foo, Muesli Bar
Description:    The incredible FooBar package, always handy for examples --
                                even multiline examples, which AboutSystem 
should format
                                properly.
License:                GNU GPL v2
URL:                    http://foobar.example.com

The license name would refer to an equally named file in /etc/licenses/. To 
avoid conflicts, the name of the file in a optional package should be 
".OptionalPackageDescription", added to the zip file without path name.

Unless there are objections or someone else wants to do that, I'll prepare 
the build system and AboutSystem to eat those files later today or maybe 
tomorrow.

CU, Ingo

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