Re: [PATCH] Support for multiple licenses.

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Sergey" == Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> writes:

 Sergey> Hello,
 Sergey> When copying required files, automake in its current form supposes
 Sergey> that the package being 'automade' falls under the terms of only
 Sergey> one license (either GPL or Lesser GPL). However, some packages
 Sergey> are distributed under the terms of the two licenses. For example,
 Sergey> GNU Mailutils package distributes its libraries under LGPL, and
 Sergey> binary programs under GPL. Thus, in Mailutils we need both COPYING
 Sergey> and COPYING.LIB to be distributed. 

That should not be a problem.  Just copy both files into your
top-level directory and they will be distributed.

 Sergey> I propose to add a new switch 'multiple-licenses' which would tell
 Sergey> automake that the package needs both files. Then, if one sets in the
 Sergey> Makefile.am

 Sergey> AUTOMAKE-OPTIONS = gnu multiple-licenses

 Sergey> and copies COPYING.LIB to the root directory of his package, then
 Sergey> automake will add both COPYING and COPYING.LIB to the DIST_COMMON
 Sergey> variable of the resulting Makefile.in.

I'm not sure I understand the logic.  If users still have to
copy COPYING.LIB, what's wrong if they need to copy COPYING too?
Saving one copy doesn't seem worth an additional option.
Especially because adding licenses to a project is usually done
only once.
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz