| From: | Aaron Optimizer Digulla |
| Date: | 22 Aug 2000 at 15:55:53 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Amiga tool inclusion... |
Quoting "Ray A. Akey" <ray@codemain.com>:
> > How about transferring the copyright ? Will that be necessary ?
> >
> > If not, how about creating a special field in the READMEs which must
> > accompany every upload to the FTP server which states if the software
> > may be distributed on your distributions ? That should help a lot
> > to automate the process.
>
> Any fields or description/direction you put in the .readme, above and
> beyond
> the 2 required (short:, and author:) fields are you choice and will not
> be removed nor edited.
Misunderstanding. I'm suggesting a third field like the "NoCD:" field
on Aminet which says if Amiga is allowed to include this package in their
distribution (for example, in a contrib/ directory). Then all you have
todo is to write a script which checks this field and copies the respective
packages+readmes to CD.
> > Also, you might want to do the same for the software on the CVS
> > server (non-GNU software, that is. Everything GNU can of course
> > be distributed without any restrictions except that you must
> > include the sources :-)
>
> Whoever is providing/maintaining/uploading the snapshots should take
> responsibility to do this. Amiga does not and will not/should not
> provide
> support nor be responsible or liable for third party contributed
> software.
> Amiga only redistributes the software that the third party developers
> provide to us _as is_. It is up to you, the developer, to see that you
> follow the ettiquette and rules regarding any given license, GNU or
> otherwise. We want to promote and encourage developer responsibility,
> not assume the responsibility for them.
Well, since I guess that the number of packages available this way will
explode, soon, you should better define a consistent way how we can do
this (for example, by adding a specific field in the READMEs). Otherwise
Gary will get drowned in EMails :-)
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