Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Review of Kazlib

[Nicodemo Alvaro]

On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:29:29 -0500
Mario Castelán Castro <address@hidden> wrote:
> Kazlib https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?9796 is "a collection of a
<snip>
> All C source files have the licence notice but it currently under the
> modified BSD, but the author says than it is changing to GNU GPL 2+.

The author said it was switching to the modified BSD license since his 
original license and it were almost alike. It was confusing to see that 
he selected GNU GPL version 2 or later and adding his comment on it.

> Another issue not so important but is concerning is the fact than all
> the files are in the tarball root, not in a directory inside the
> tarball as is the usual.

I find that annoying too. Before you get extract a tarball it is best
to see what is inside it.

use 'tar tzf tarball.tar.gz' or 'tar tjf tarball.tar.bz2' to see.

Thanks for the help.
-- 
Nicodemo