Re: packaging aesthetics

[Thomas Weber]

Hi, 

Am Mittwoch, den 14.02.2007, 17:57 +0100 schrieb Soren Hauberg:
> > The easiest, would be to allow a package with a bunch of m-files and a
> > COPYING and DESCRIPTION file. Is that compromise enough?
> We could remove the need for the COPYING file. I would prefer if we 
> could educate people on the need of licenses, but it's a though fight. 
> Most of the matlab code on the web doesn't have a license, so if we 
> don't require the COPYING file we would appeal to the matlab crowd.

Without a license, distributions won't be able to include these files at
all. A compromise might be to tell clearly that the default license is
XYZ[1] if people upload without a license?

[1] I would probably choose "covered by the same license as GNU Octave".

        Thomas