Hold on - if it was a GPL package wouldn't the license be in 

/usr/share/licenses/common/GPL

;)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Chu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 26 July 2005 15:25
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [arch] License field in PKGBUILDs
> 
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 02:10:38PM +0100, Philip Dillon-Thiselton wrote:
> > I have updated the doc on the new wiki as a said I would but I need some
> more clarification.
> >
> > Where the doc say "include license file(s) in
> /usr/share/licenses/<pkgname>" I assumed this meant inside
> > a dir called pkgname - but that might be incorrect?  What should be
> called pkgname: the license file
> > itself or the dir the license file goes in?  It must be the latter if
> there are going to be cases with
> > more than one license but then what should the license files be called?
> >
> > Also the doc is currently in html format - would it be better to
> completely wiki-fy it then have Dusty
> > convert it later for the sake of readability in the short term?
> >
> > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Packaging_Standards
> 
> The license is a file inside a directory named <pkgname>.  If we were to
> use the GPL as an example, it'd be something like,
> /usr/share/licenses/glibc/COPYING.
> 
> Jason
> 
> --
> If you understand, things are just as they are.  If you do not understand,
> things are just as they are.



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