Getting upstream to include license files
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
dominik at greysector.net
Thu Jan 25 22:40:50 UTC 2007
On Thursday, 25 January 2007 at 19:20, Tim Jackson wrote:
> I have created the following suggested sample text to save people some
> time when asking upstream authors to include full license text in their
> packages:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/LicenseInclusionUpstreamRequest
>
> Any comments/changes welcome. I'm not trying to mandate that anyone
> should use this, just suggest that having a prewritten polite bit of
> boilerplate might save some time.
>
> If people like it generally then perhaps spot would consider including a
> link to it on the PackageReviewGuidelines under the relevant point about
> requesting upstream to include license text?
Looks good to me. Some nits:
s/This package/This software/
s/is is/it is/
s/to hand/at hand/
Regards,
R.
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