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

Ingo Weinhold wrote:
> 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.
>   

FWIW, this sounds like a good plan to me.

+1

Cheers,

Koki

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