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Re: installing COPYING.SID
- To: fche at redhat dot com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
- Subject: Re: installing COPYING.SID
- From: Ben Elliston <bje at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:12:23 +1000 (EST)
- Cc: sid at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <15197.21248.667127.484840.cygnus.project.sid@scooby.brisbane.redhat.com><o53d7mml9b.fsf@toenail.toronto.redhat.com>
>>>>> "Frank" == Frank Ch Eigler <fche@redhat.com> writes:
Frank> bje wrote:
Frank> : I would like to query this change from March:
Frank> : [...]
Frank> : Why is the license file installed in the install tree?
Frank> : This seems a bit unorthodox.
Frank> The COPYING.SID file needs to be included in any release - binary or
Frank> source. How do you suggest this be assured?
It is presently in the source tree. That's where the license for many
free software packages can be found. It's not normally *installed*,
that's all.
Ben