Add LICENSE File #1

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opened 2 years ago by lunarequest · 1 comments

As a downstream user who wants to package this for the AUR, A LICENSE file must be provided by upstream so it can be installed to usr/share/licenses/. This is also the case with Nixos where License links back to upstreams license file.

This also serves the benefit for people who want to find out the license of the project without poking at the source code of the project

As a downstream user who wants to package this for the AUR, A LICENSE file must be provided by upstream so it can be installed to `usr/share/licenses/`. This is also the case with Nixos where License links back to upstreams license file. This also serves the benefit for people who want to find out the license of the project without poking at the source code of the project
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fef commented 2 years ago
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Thanks for letting me know! I actually planned to to this myself some time ago but somehow forgot. The thing is, i don't really know how the dual BSD/GPL licensing thing works in practice (in terms of what you're supposed to put into the LICENSE file), so i've narrowed it down to just GPLv2 for now to avoid ambiguities. Feel free to hit me up again if you can help!

Furthermore, i appreciate your willingness to maintain keymash as an AUR package. However, please be aware that there is already a keymash-dkms-git, so unless you intend to distribute prebuilt binaries there is no real need for another package.

Thanks for letting me know! I actually planned to to this myself some time ago but somehow forgot. The thing is, i don't really know how the dual BSD/GPL licensing thing works in practice (in terms of what you're supposed to put into the `LICENSE` file), so i've narrowed it down to just GPLv2 for now to avoid ambiguities. Feel free to hit me up again if you can help! Furthermore, i appreciate your willingness to maintain keymash as an AUR package. However, please be aware that there is already a [`keymash-dkms-git`](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/keymash-dkms-git), so unless you intend to distribute prebuilt binaries there is no real need for another package.
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