Re: [Leaf-devel] Licensing (specifically, djb)

[Dale Long]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
> I suggested (earlier) that we use a <pkg>.desc file with tags.  It could
> contain all SORTS of things, and becomes extensible in a scary sort of
> way.  All sorts of descriptions could be in there:
> 
> * version
> * full package name
> * packager
> * compiler
> * date packaged
> * home URL for package
> * group ("Net/Diagnostics")
> * copyright ("MIT/X" "BSD" "GPL" "Proprietary")
> * OSI compatable copyright?  (true/false...)
> * one line description
> * Minimalistic requires... (ie, error if these are missing, but don't
> stop...)
> 
> A program could then scan all these packages, find all of the *.desc
> files, then parse the tags and output some nice HTML.  This can get
> wild...
> 
> I'm excited by this possibility...

I like this too. It would make LRP a more coherent system, even if just
under LEAF. I remember the frustration in trying to get into LRP; pages
were out of date, pages were not there, sites were not supported etc...
LEAF seems to fix all of that.

Dale.


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