[Solved] PKGBUILD and html license

Tristelune · 2014-06-20 09:10:36

Hello,

I want to update the PKGBUILD for pdfstudio8. The license for this
software is not a common license, so I have to include it in the package. The license is distributed with the software but
is a html file. As far I know, I have to include a license in txt format in the package. So, is it ok to include the html ? Or how
can I produce a txt from the html ? One possibility would be to use a text based webbrowser like this:

w3m -dump license.html > license.txt

But I would add w3m as a dependency. Ok, the user could uninstall it after the installation of the package. I could also
produce the txt file and add it the package like a patch, but if the license changes, it can happens that the maintainer doesn't update the license. If it's produced
from the delivered software, we are sure it will be the present license.

Any advices ?

Thank you!

Last edited by Tristelune (2014-06-20 19:23:24)

lolilolicon · 2014-06-20 10:59:35

I don't see why you can't include an HTML license. I would just install it as /usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE.html. Otherwise, if the HTML is simple, you can strip the HTML tags with sed.

WorMzy · 2014-06-20 12:23:18

I would do as lolilolicon suggests, and just install the raw html license. In the unlikely event that the user doesn't have a web browser installed, HTML is (more or less, depending on the author's habits) parsable by humans.

Tristelune · 2014-06-20 19:21:38

Thank you for your responses! I will choose to include the license in html format, it's easier.

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[Solved] PKGBUILD and html license

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