1$NetBSD: README,v 1.3 2008/07/15 13:32:35 lukem Exp $ 2 3Organization of Sources: 4 5This directory hierarchy is using an organization that separates 6source for programs that we have obtained from external third 7parties (where NetBSD is not the primary maintainer) from the 8system source. 9 10The hierarchy is grouped by license, and then package per license, 11and is organized as follows: 12 13 external/ 14 15 Makefile 16 Descend into the license sub-directories. 17 18 <license>/ 19 Per-license sub-directories. 20 21 Makefile 22 Descend into the package sub-directories. 23 24 <package>/ 25 Per-package sub-directories. 26 27 Makefile 28 Build the package. 29 30 dist/ 31 The third-party source for a given package. 32 33 bin/ 34 lib/ 35 sbin/ 36 BSD makefiles "reach over" from these into 37 "../dist/". 38 39This arrangement allows for packages to be easily disabled or 40excised as necessary, either on a per-license or per-package basis. 41 42The licenses currently used are: 43 44 bsd BSD (or equivalent) licensed software, possibly with 45 the "advertising clause". 46 47 gpl2 GNU Public License, version 2 (or earlier). 48 49If a package has components covered by different licenses 50(for example, GPL2 and the LGPL), use the <license> subdirectory 51for the more restrictive license. 52 53If a package allows the choice of a license to use, we'll 54generally use the less restrictive license. 55 56If in doubt about where a package should be located, please 57contact <core@NetBSD.org> for advice. 58 59 60Migration Strategy: 61 62 63Eventually src/dist (and associated framework in other base source 64directories) and src/gnu will be migrated to this hierarchy. 65 66 67Maintenance Strategy: 68 69The sources under src/external/<license>/<package>/dist/ are 70generally a combination of a published distribution plus changes 71that we submit to the maintainers and that are not yet published 72by them. 73 74Make sure all changes made to the external sources are submitted 75to the appropriate maintainer, but only after coordinating with 76the NetBSD maintainers. 77