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Re: packaging aesthetics


From: Søren Hauberg
Subject: Re: packaging aesthetics
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:36:26 +0100
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Thomas Weber skrev:
Hi,
Am Mittwoch, den 14.02.2007, 17:57 +0100 schrieb Soren Hauberg:
The easiest, would be to allow a package with a bunch of m-files and a
COPYING and DESCRIPTION file. Is that compromise enough?
We could remove the need for the COPYING file. I would prefer if we could educate people on the need of licenses, but it's a though fight. Most of the matlab code on the web doesn't have a license, so if we don't require the COPYING file we would appeal to the matlab crowd.

Without a license, distributions won't be able to include these files at
all. A compromise might be to tell clearly that the default license is
XYZ[1] if people upload without a license?

[1] I would probably choose "covered by the same license as GNU Octave".
Octave-forge would never include packages without a clear license. If we decided not to require the COPYING file it should only affect random packages lying around on the web. But since nobody (including myself) think it's a good idea not require the COPYING file, I'll just shout up now.

Soren


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