Re: Missing License in official archive, so cannot be redistribute extension.
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Tue, 22 Oct 2013 09:00:03 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Missing License in official archive, so cannot be redistribute extension. | ||
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On Mon, 21 Oct 2013, Remi Collet wrote:
> Here is the list of some (in the ~80 I have checked) extensions where
> the LICENSE file is missing from the official archive of the last
> released version.
>
> So those extensions cannot be redistribute.
That's a bit of a useless blanket statement. The package.xml ought to
link to the license file, so why not just extract it when it's linked
there instead? the packaging system can easily take care of that.
cheers,
Derick
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