(Fwd) Re: Gnu Copyright Docs in Familiar 0.5

I Should have posted this to the list Yesterday but ...
( i had a bad case of Finger Trouble (:-)) )
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From: Self <AIS513@news.salford.ac.uk>
To: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
Subject: Re: [Familiar] Gnu Copyright Docs in Familiar 0.5
Date sent: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 15:09:19 +0100

Sounds good to me on a 16MB earom Ipaq every byte counts ...

After I posted the last message I started wondering if ipkg could
download/ a licence if there was not one in a specific place on the
ipaq

On 24 Sep 2001, at 9:11, Russell Nelson wrote:

> A.Pearce@salford.ac.uk writes:
> > In my Familiar 0.5 There is a directory /usr/share/doc
> > in this directory there is a subdir for each package installed
> > and
> in > that the file copyright, while each of these files is small I
> managed > to "recover" 48KB of my precious flash ram by deleting
> this > subtree, is it a good idea to either have one copyright file
> or if we > must have multiple copyright files ... would symlinks be
> ok ?? > or can we have ipkg look for /usr/share/doc/copyright ??
>
> Many licenses say that when you redistribute, you must redistribute
> the license as well. But nobody ever said that ipkg actually has to
> *install* the license. Perhaps we should put the license in a file
> called LICENSE in the control fork of the .ipk?
>
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