On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:14:54 +0100, Nick wrote:
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:49:36 +0200 Frank Lanitz frank@frank.uvena.de wrote:
during the work on Updatecheker I recognized another time that nearly every plugin is having its own copy of GPL. As most of the plugins code is licensed under GPL2+, what do you think of moving the individual copies of GPL into a central, geany-plugins-License as
Then you would have to maintain a list of the plugins with the licenses they use.
If the GPL copies are virtually the same I guess they won't take space when they're compressed.
I agree. First of all, all the license files are plain ASCII text which can be really good compressed. And as Nick said, since those files are the same, the compression ratio should be even higher. Additionally, compared to the rest of all the contents, the license files might not be the biggest factor.
Also what if an author wanted to distribute their plugin separately?
Also agree.
Regards, Enrico