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| author | wiz <wiz@pkgsrc.org> | 2007-05-11 22:47:13 +0000 |
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| committer | wiz <wiz@pkgsrc.org> | 2007-05-11 22:47:13 +0000 |
| commit | 27a7e0d55370b81bb7bc7acbd2c085812ff7f003 (patch) | |
| tree | a2a87fdbcccdfe33d5009be8beab1f0af3a4bee7 /doc/guide | |
| parent | a7e5766be6285dcdd87b58a4afebc7b778cdfffe (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-27a7e0d55370b81bb7bc7acbd2c085812ff7f003.tar.gz | |
Mention that one should change the name of a license
when changing the license text.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/guide')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guide/files/fixes.xml | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guide/files/fixes.xml b/doc/guide/files/fixes.xml index 16af55ef776..db065c47e0d 100644 --- a/doc/guide/files/fixes.xml +++ b/doc/guide/files/fixes.xml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $NetBSD: fixes.xml,v 1.81 2007/03/01 22:29:15 wiz Exp $ --> +<!-- $NetBSD: fixes.xml,v 1.82 2007/05/11 22:47:13 wiz Exp $ --> <chapter id="fixes"> <?dbhtml filename="fixes.html"?> <title>Making your package work</title> @@ -160,6 +160,12 @@ for displaying. A list of known licenses can be seen in this directory.</para> + <para>When the license changes, please make sure that the new + license has a different name (e.g., append the version number if + it exists, or the date). Just because a user agreed to a previous + version of a license does not mean that the new version is + automatically ok too.</para> + <para>The use of <varname>LICENSE=shareware</varname>, <varname>LICENSE=no-commercial-use</varname>, and similar language is deprecated because it does not crisply refer to |