[racket-dev] Too many license files

Great, I mis-posted that to users not dev. Gah.

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Greg Hendershott
<greghendershott at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>> Yes, the duplicate files bother me, too. I think removing the
>> duplicates will require yet another little twist in the package system
>> (since the files originate from individual packages), so we've left
>> them for now.
>
> At Fri, 21 Feb 2014 11:45:50 -0500, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
>> I'm not a lawyer, but I figured that, for most packages I author, I
>> probably don't *need* to include the full text of a well-known license
>> (e.g., LGPLv3).  Instead, I give the copyright notice, state that the
>> license using the recognized full name of the license (and a URL), and
>> then some disclaimers.
>
> Speaking of referencing rather than copying licenses, and third party pkgs:
>
> It would be helpful for some sort of canonical license ID or URI to be
> part of the official metadata in info.rkt and on pkgs.racket-lang.org.
>
> That way someone could filter packages by license when browsing the
> pkg web site.
>
> Also, it could enable `raco pkg` (or a third-party utility) to do a
> license compatibility check down the dependency chain.
>
> Even just "license missing" would be helpful to know, transitively.
> Plus there's license compatibility. (That taxonomy or permissiveness
> ordinality doesn't necessarily need to be baked into the license URIs;
> it could come from elsewhere, but use the URIs.)