On Tue, 17 May 2016 16:14:01 +0300 Denis Kozlov <dez...@gmail.com> wrote:
>[...]it is not natural to require developer to check *every > component or part* for licensing terms, which can be hundreds or even > thousands of individual parts. Hundreds? You only need to check one per package. > That is why I thought it could be clearer if most of Lazarus/FPC code base > is under the same licensing schema, while everything that falls outside of > it could be easily discovered (this is where an idea of placing such code > into a dedicated folder came about). This kind of approach would > drastically simply code base slicing based on licensing terms, that is what > Debian packagers have to do with Lazarus and many other packages. For Debian maintainers and other third party bundles we should gather the abbreviated license information in the components/readme.txt, so they can easier pick the cherries. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus