On Oct 15, 2009, at 8:50 AM, David Lutterkort wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 17:36 -0700, Luke Kanies wrote: >> How would we manage the list of allowed licenses? The goal is to >> provide consistency, right, not just restrict what license people can >> use? > > It doesn't have to be supported by tooling; a Wiki page similar to the > one that Fedora has (or just pointing to that) would be good enough. > >> So do we just have an array somewhere that we update when we discover >> a new license we want to use? Or can we seed it with the valid >> licenses in RPM? > > The fixed license short names are a convention; if you use an unknown > license, you can still build the RPM. Some of the rpm checking tools > like rpmlint will complain though - I don't think anything like that > needs to be there for puppet modules, as long as the convention is > followed by people (and the ones not following will get a polite > reminder from whoever packages the module as an RPM) > >> As to the file list, I'm not really ready to do that. I think the >> right answer is some easy way to generate it from git or ruby; having >> a fixed file list is just fugly. > > Yeah, I mostly listed that for completeness - it's a very low > priority, > as long a we can easily tell documentation files from 'normal' files > because of their name (again, based on conventions)
Sounds like we're mostly done, then. I think we're going to want a lot of tooling around this, too, but at least for now we've got something we can try. -- There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. -- Christopher Morley --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
