1$NetBSD: README,v 1.1 2008/05/22 12:44:26 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 the 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. 41 42The licenses currently used are: 43 44 bsd BSD (or equivalent) licensed software, possibly with 45 the "advertising clause". 46 47 48Eventually src/dist (and associated framework in other base source 49directories) and src/gnu will be migrated to this hierarchy. 50 51 52Maintenance Strategy: 53 54The sources under src/external/<license>/<package>/dist/ are 55generally a combination of a published distribution plus changes 56that we submit to the maintainers and that are not yet published 57by them. 58 59Make sure all changes made to the external sources are submitted 60to the appropriate maintainer, but only after coordinating with 61the NetBSD maintainers. 62