Re: [PATCH] Support for multiple licenses.

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

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

[...]

 Sergey> usually people do not keep files like COPYING in the
 Sergey> repository, 

If the repository is public I think it should include the
license(s), because CVS is then used as a way to distribute
sources.

 Sergey> instead they rely on automake to copy missing files to
 Sergey> the top-level directory. Won't it be good if automake
 Sergey> would be able to copy both files on request?

I think that doesn't scale.  Someone else will then want a way
to install only COPYING.LIB, or the FSF will invent a new
license and we'll need to implement a complicated license
selection mechanism that sounds overkill compared to a simple
`cp'.

Actually my real feeling is that Automake should not even
install COPYING: it should just require at least one license to
be present.  I even consider bogus that `automake -a -f'
*overwrite* COPYING.
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz