[tsc-devel] On the COPYING file

Marvin Gülker | Sun, 29 Jan 2017 08:38:39 UTC

Hi everyone,

my current Internet connection appearently is not good enough for
GitHub; I cannot make any comments there. Good we have a mailinglist.

First, on the name of the COPYING file. This name for the license file
is the standard naming amongst GPL-licensed projects, and pretty much
every project licensed under GPL and I think every GNU project names the
file like this. If I remember correctly, the GPLv2 explicitely
recommended naming the license file like that in the appendix "how to
apply this license to your program". Thus, this is by no means an
unusual name for a license file. As a side note, LGPL-licensed projects
often additionally come with a "COPYING.LESSER" file containing the LGPL
text.

Then, on the problem with CMake. I'm sorry that I overlooked the
issue. datahead has properly fixed the problem with commit
0b06d2c983af5eab6edaeb2b18620a98b9008441. From CMake's perspective the
directory containing the `CMakeLists.txt' file *is* the root directory
of the project. This only isn't true for us due to the drafts/ directory
one level up from there, but once we extract that directory into a
separate repository as it is planned anyway the problem will vanish, as
the contents of the tsc/ directory will then move up by one
level. `TSC_SOURCE_DIR' contains the path to the directory containing
`CMakeLists.txt'.

Greetings
Marvin aka Quintus

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