[Nix-dev] Re: BSD licenses

[Yury G. Kudryashov]

Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 01:03:30AM +0200, Marc Weber wrote:
>> BSD license:
>> 
>> [...]
>> 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
>>    notice,
>> [...]
>> 
>> Is there a common $out location to put the license in?
>> Probably the destination path should be unique so that no collisions
>> occur.
> 
> Or it could be a path nix-env or nixos will not try to put in a profile
> derivation, like happens with $out/nix-support.
Other distros use $out/share/doc/$name/{COPYING,LICENSE,...}. Why not follow 
this convention?