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dolby

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AUR and license in PKGBUILDs

Hi, inspired by http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-gene … 08980.html i wanted to raise a different kind of discussion.
Are the PKGBUILDs submitted to AUR subject to any license by default? AFAIK they arent.
Lately i noticed that most of the scripts i have submitted to the AUR, and later dropped, were picked up by others who have conviniently scratched my personal data from the script and added theirs. Thats totally uneceptable. Even if you see PKGBUILDs in official repos they carry contributor data from way back in 2002.
Should we start adding licenses to the scripts too?
The most convinient way would be to have a license for anything that gets submitted to the AUR, instead of adding lines inside PKGBUILDs.

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Allan

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Re: AUR and license in PKGBUILDs

Are the PKGBUILDs submitted to AUR subject to any license by default? AFAIK they arent.

Not that I have seen.  That probably is something that should be looked into.

Lately i noticed that most of the scripts i have submitted to the AUR, and later dropped, were picked up by others who have conviniently scratched my personal data from the script and added theirs. Thats totally uneceptable.

Agreed.  There is nothing wrong with having multiple contributor lines so people should use them.  It is very poor form to take credit for other peoples work.

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dolby

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Re: AUR and license in PKGBUILDs

Can TUs consider this and implement it in some later AUR version if its valued as a desirable feature?
I suggest a notice on the front page like " All content submitted to the site is licenced under the GPL version 3 or later" or something similar.

Last edited by dolby (2008-11-13 21:03:22)

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Allan

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Re: AUR and license in PKGBUILDs

Can you file a bug report for this?

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dolby

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Re: AUR and license in PKGBUILDs

Yes & excuse me for not having done so already

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