On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 03:54:52PM +0100, Maxence Guesdon wrote:
> > > That's what I was thinking about: the mandatory license tag could
> > > take an url and the license would be retrieved from that url when
> > > the caml-get archive is retrieved. If a license could not be
> > > retrieved (because of a wrong url for example), the element would
> > > not be available in the client repository.
> > 
> > Notice that many licences mandate that either the full licence or a
> > reduced version is available together with the source you distribute.
> 
> Would it be ok it the license was put in the client repository and printed
> with the code when the (for example) -l option is given ? (By default
> the complete license information would not be printed with the code, only
> the url where to find it.) This way the license is available but not
> always added to your file when you want to use an element of the repository
> in your code.

Imagine a guy who ocaml-get's a given bit of code on his laptops, and
then wants to work on it in a plane or somewhere else offline ?

He will then have no access ot the licence, which is not ok.

(But then, i have not looked at your work in detail, and may have missed
something).

The best would be to have, for each bit of source you can ocaml-get, a
link to a licence file, which may be common to many ocaml-gettable
sources, and which get downloaded only if it has not already, maybe with
a md5sum check to make sure it is indeed the same licence.

Then, you can just have the licence tag or whatever refer to a file on
the client harddisk, and there will be no problem.

BTW, how does ocaml-get integrate (or not) with the debian packaging
effort ? Will it be possible to use it to install non-packaged stuff in
a debian policy friendly way or something like that ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther

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