On 07/08/2010 03:44 AM, Caolán McNamara wrote:
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 16:29 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway
wrote:
> Basically, what this means is this: If you maintain a package, and that
> package generates subpackages, then each subpackage must either include
> a copy of the appropriate licensing texts (as available in the source),
> or it must Require (either implicitly or explicitly) another subpackage
> which does include the appropriate licensing texts.
Is there any point in say, splitting a package into an additional
-licence/-doc subpackage and adding Requires on that from the other
subpackages ?
That is certainly your choice as a package maintainer, but I'm not going
to say that you _MUST_ do that. I'm not advocating making the dependency
chain any longer or more complex. :)
~spot