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#1 2004-04-29 22:06:51

zeppelin
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man pages don't have new field about License

at least PKGBUILD.proto has it.
but plz add it to the man pages too [for example in makepkg]

ty

and I would start using License because It's extra important

I should expect in the near future,
IgnoreLicenseType = non-free

and similar stuff that would keep acroread {and not only}out of the way..?

licensetypes coud be gpl-lgpl-compatible {it includes the latest BSD license}, X11, and so on..

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#2 2004-04-30 06:22:27

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Re: man pages don't have new field about License

You read the newsletter right?

http://www.archlinux.org/~jason/newslet … 04-Apr-25/

You read the dev section, didn't you?


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#3 2004-04-30 09:55:21

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Re: man pages don't have new field about License

Hello Xentac. hmm I missed the 1. point it seems..


anyways, you 've added the license feature to Pacman.
so at least one can find it on the man makepkg in the fields where you mention url source etc..

I think that the IgnoreLicenseType = non-free is the way for AL to go smile
But I'm just user with some pkgs (at the moment) so you decide

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#4 2004-05-01 01:13:17

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Re: man pages don't have new field about License

But why mention it if we'll have to fix a bunch of packages later on because they're using the wrong method?


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#5 2004-05-01 10:46:40

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Re: man pages don't have new field about License

what the wrong method of usage?

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#6 2004-05-01 18:08:46

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Re: man pages don't have new field about License

Well, what goes into the license field?


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#7 2004-05-01 18:43:56

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Re: man pages don't have new field about License

an array of strings??
because you can have dual licensing sometimes. like OOo

license=(LGPL SISSL)

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#8 2004-05-01 18:51:40

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Re: man pages don't have new field about License

My point is that we don't know exactly how the license field is going to be used (by the people who make packages and pacman), so we don't want to set anything now and have to change it later.  Better to set it later and nat have to change anything till then.


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#9 2004-05-01 19:37:58

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Re: man pages don't have new field about License

ok. thanks smile

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