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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE/kdelibs/cmake/modules
From:       Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-09-06 20:37:13
Message-ID: 20060906203713.GC3768 () ugly ! local
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On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 10:00:32PM +0200, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 September 2006 21:37, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > it's not okay to have a license only in kdelibs and refer to it from
> > the other tar-balls. things are probably different for svn and they
> > *are* different for split-up packages. point is, every separately
> > distributed entity must carry a full license. and you may not assume
> > on-line access - it must be on the same medium as the licensed
> > material itself.
> 
> How about putting a COPYING-CMAKE-SCRIPTS (which contains the BSD
> license) in every modules in the same directory as the cmake scripts
> and then reference it in every file ?
> 
i'm pretty sure that's fine, otherwise about every tar-ball would have
no proper license. :)
i think it would be even ok to have it only once in svn and have make
dist copy it into every tar-ball, as toma suggested. after all, the svn
repo is one distribution entity (the global revision numbers prove it,
if somebody should challenge it :).

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