1$NetBSD: README,v 1.4 2008/07/29 04:54:58 mrg 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 49 50 mit MIT (X11) style license. 51 52If a package has components covered by different licenses 53(for example, GPL2 and the LGPL), use the <license> subdirectory 54for the more restrictive license. 55 56If a package allows the choice of a license to use, we'll 57generally use the less restrictive license. 58 59If in doubt about where a package should be located, please 60contact <core@NetBSD.org> for advice. 61 62 63Migration Strategy: 64 65 66Eventually src/dist (and associated framework in other base source 67directories) and src/gnu will be migrated to this hierarchy. 68 69 70Maintenance Strategy: 71 72The sources under src/external/<license>/<package>/dist/ are 73generally a combination of a published distribution plus changes 74that we submit to the maintainers and that are not yet published 75by them. 76 77Make sure all changes made to the external sources are submitted 78to the appropriate maintainer, but only after coordinating with 79the NetBSD maintainers. 80