Re: GNOME 2.0 Licensing Issues

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 03:20:53PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Iain <iain ximian com> writes: 
> > COPYING is created by automake when you run the autogen.sh script. No
> > autogenerated file is in CVS. automake also makes a symlink, so one copy
> > of the file is shared between all the things you checked out of CVS. I
> > think it's probably a space issue. The same happens for INSTALLING.
> 
> I don't think we should be relying on this for COPYING. (Especially
> because COPYING is wrong for libraries.) We should be putting COPYING
> or COPYING.LIB in CVS for all modules.
> 

And COPYING-DOCS for those packages containing docs licensed under the
FDL.

Cheers,
-- 
John Fleck
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