On 8 Oct 2012, at 11:14, Thomas Gazagnaire <thomas.gazagna...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Regarding the license for GODI description files: most of the description > files that packagers create in GODI are actually copied/pasted from author's > website, so I'm not sure how you'll be able to track this if you don't have a > *very* permissive licensing scheme.
For this reason alone, anything other than a public domain license seems very questionable. Are you really sure that all the contributors to GODI have the rights to relicense it under a Creative Commons license? On the other hand, public domain is at least relatively simple. I took a look at the FreeBSD and OpenBSD ports trees to get some inspiration, and OpenBSD appears to be public domain (or, at least, bsd.port.mk is), and FreeBSD is 2-clause BSD licensed (but there are references to "source code" there which may not apply to textual description files). Both of these repositories have a significant number of licenses cut&pasted from websites in their DESCR files. Given that the goal of all these packaging systems is to make it easy for other people to get on with using OCaml, I would encourage dropping on the side of simplicity and making the description files public domain. -anil _______________________________________________ Godi-list mailing list Godi-list@ocaml-programming.de https://godirepo.camlcity.org/mailman/listinfo/godi-list
