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doc/meta.xml: fix github links, clarify licensing section

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Vladimír Čunát 2014-07-30 20:07:54 +02:00
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@ -121,10 +121,11 @@ interpretation:</para>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>license</varname></term>
<listitem><para>The license for the package. One from attribute set defined in
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/lib/licenses.nix">
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/lib/licenses.nix">
<filename>nixpkgs/lib/licenses.nix</filename></link>.
Example:
<literal>stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl3</literal>.</para></listitem>
See details in <xref linkend='sec-meta-license'/>,
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
@ -133,7 +134,7 @@ interpretation:</para>
maintainers of this Nix expression. If
you would like to be a maintainer of a package, you may want to add
yourself to <link
xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/lib/maintainers.nix"><filename>nixpkgs/lib/maintainers.nix</filename></link>
xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/lib/maintainers.nix"><filename>nixpkgs/lib/maintainers.nix</filename></link>
and write something like <literal>[ stdenv.lib.maintainers.alice
stdenv.lib.maintainers.bob ]</literal>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
@ -159,8 +160,8 @@ interpretation:</para>
meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
</programlisting>
Attribute Set <varname>stdenv.lib.platforms</varname> in
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/lib/platforms.nix">
Attribute Set <varname>stdenv.lib.platforms</varname> in
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/lib/platforms.nix">
<filename>nixpkgs/lib/platforms.nix</filename></link> defines various common
lists of platforms types.
</para></listitem>
@ -202,9 +203,15 @@ meta.hydraPlatforms = [];
<section xml:id="sec-meta-license"><title>Licenses</title>
<para>The <varname>meta.license</varname> attribute could be one of the
following:
<para>The <varname>meta.license</varname> attribute should preferrably contain
a value from <varname>stdenv.lib.licenses</varname> defined in
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/lib/licenses.nix">
<filename>nixpkgs/lib/licenses.nix</filename></link>,
or in-place license description of the same format if the license is
unlikely to be useful in another expression.
A few generic options are available, although it's typically better
to indicate the specific license:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>