Licensing Guidelines Update - Please Read

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On 07/19/2010 05:42 PM, M A Young wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> 
>> [xen-maint] xen: xen-doc-4.0.0-2.fc14.x86_64
>> xen-libs-4.0.0-2.fc14.x86_64 xen-hypervisor-4.0.0-2.fc14.x86_64
> 
> I am a co-maintainer of the xen package, and I am trying to work out what 
> the best way to comply with these changes since xen is rather a mess of 
> licenses - I count 25 files or symbolic links called COPYING or LICENSE in 
> the unpacked source and the base level COPYING file talks about license 
> conditions at the head of some files. They all seem to be basically GPL, 
> LGPL or BSD with one case of The "Artistic License".
> Should I include all the COPYING or LICENSE files, one of each type of 
> license (though some of the license files have different md5sums even when 
> they claim to be the same license) or just the bottom level COPYING file?

You're going to need to include all applicable license texts, sorry.

~spot