Re: Getting upstream to include license files

["Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski" <dominik greysector net>]

On Thursday, 25 January 2007 at 19:20, Tim Jackson wrote:
> I have created the following suggested sample text to save people some 
> time when asking upstream authors to include full license text in their 
> packages:
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/LicenseInclusionUpstreamRequest
> 
> Any comments/changes welcome. I'm not trying to mandate that anyone 
> should use this, just suggest that having a prewritten polite bit of 
> boilerplate might save some time.
> 
> If people like it generally then perhaps spot would consider including a 
> link to it on the PackageReviewGuidelines under the relevant point about 
> requesting upstream to include license text?

Looks good to me. Some nits:

s/This package/This software/
s/is is/it is/
s/to hand/at hand/

Regards,
R.

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