Sorry for getting back to this minor issue, but it annoyed the heck out of me :): On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:33:08 +0000, Michael Meeks <michael.meeks@novell.com> wrote:
and are we still shipping a per-language, duplicate license ?
Apropos Licenses, I had a look at our LICENSE (13kb) and the hidious THIRDPARTYLICENSES.html (411kb) in the root dir. I guess, I was the 1st human being to do so. 1) LICENSE contains LGPGL, GPLv3 + *everything* that is also in THIRDPARTYLICENSES.html (so the latter is redundant anyway). 2) THIRDPARTYLICENSES.html is a concatenation of html files, including tons of ...</html><html>... in the middle of the file. I want to see the web browser that copes with that mess. 3) The licenses are concatenated together sometimes even without a blank line or any other separator between them, making it extremely hard to see where one license ends and another one starts. Someone reallly needs to review that. 4) We seem to put that crap dynamically together (?) but my Linux still contains the License for the MS Runtime stuff, .NET EULAs, and NSIS installer. (not sure that hurts though) 5) Our .html has less content and is >20x larger than the text variant, so something in our html is clearly wrong (besides its broken syntax). I think a table of content and some hyperlinking (to not include the LGPL multiple times) would be good, so perhaps .txt is not the best format. How should we deliver the licenses? Just .html? some markdown or .rst syntax? In any case, at least we should get rid of the redundand THIRDPARTYLICENSE.html thingie. Sebastian
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