On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 16:47 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 19:25 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
And what is the purpose of commenting licenses in the file list, apart from making the packagers life miserable ?
I agree. Or at least, I disagree with the example and scope in the Draft. I don't think we care what the license of an individual built program is. We might care what the license of a built library is.
Whether it's better to mark libraries with a spec comment or make it mandatory to split libraries that are licensed differently from other code, I don't know, though.
How would we know if there is a problem if program X links to lib Y if we don't have the licenses of both available.
-sv