Re: [OF] where to put license files?

[Carnë Draug]

On 23 December 2015 at 21:36, Philip Nienhuis <address@hidden> wrote:
> [...]
> Carnë Draug wrote:
>>
>> On 23 December 2015 at 19:15, Philip Nienhuis <address@hidden>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> In installed OF packages the GPL license (COPYING) resides in the
>>> packinfo/
>>> subdir.  So that subdir looks like a good place for other licenses
>>> associated with SW in a package.
>>> ==> How do I get together that e.g., a file "license.txt" ends up in
>>> packinfo/ ?
>>>
>>> (FYI, I want to include some c++ code covered by an MIT license
>>> (GPL-compatible) in the mapping package.)
>>
>>
>> You leave your COPYING file with the GPLv3+ license and simply add the
>> file under the MIT license to the repository.
>
> My very question was *how* to do that. If I simply put it anywhere in the
> package, it never gets installed.
> [...]

Ah.  I see what you mean.  The copyright notice on the source is lost
after installation because we don't keep the C++ sources.  Only the
COPYING file is installed.

I'm not sure what is the right thing to do there.  My impression is that
the whole mapping package becomes under the GPL license so you only need
that license.

Anyway, I don't think we have to worry about it since we are releasing
sources only, and the copyright notice is there.

Carnë