[opam-devel] licensing handling for Opam

[Anil Madhavapeddy]

On 4 Apr 2013, at 08:13, Florent Monnier <monnier.florent at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2013/04/04, Anil Madhavapeddy <anil at recoi...>:
> [...]
>> OASIS has a nice library to handle all this doesn't it?  CCing Sylvain to
>> see if it can be separately used by OPAM.
> 
> Be carefull though, such a solution can be for sure a help,
> but a human check is still necessary.
> 
> This is very rare but sometimes there is a mismatch between the
> licensing information provided in the _oasis file and in the headers
> of the source code.
> There is currently at least one lib like this.

You should report these upstream to get them fixed.  OPAM isn't really the place to hold local patches (as this metadata could be used by other package managers too).

-anil