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			Sample Open Source Policy 
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If you want an open source tool to be added to the standard set of
distributed tools, the following criteria must be met:

	1) The tool must be useful to more than one department

	2) A department account must be provided to which
	to charge the disk space allocation for this tool.

	3) A person must be available to install and maintain
	the tool.  

	4) Sufficient time must be allocated to do the job properly.

If users want the system administration department to install and maintain
a free tool, then they must convince the head of Computing Services that
this tool is useful to the company as a whole.

Before installing any free tool, users must send E-Mail to "tool_admin"
so that they can setup the disk space.


Source Files
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Place source files in the directory, /open_src/<pgk>, where <pgk> is
the name of the package your are installing.

Each <pkg> directory must contain

	1) The original tar ball, (or whatever media the software
	was downloaded to.)

	2) A script or Makefile that takes the tar ball, unpacks
	it, builds the package, and performs installation.

	3) Any local patch files.
	Note: Hand configuration and patching is strongly 
	discouraged.  Everything should be automatic and 
	under control of the Makefile or script.

Building
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The standard supported platforms are:

	O/S			Build host
	----------		-----------
	Solaris 6		sunrise
	HP-UX			puck
	SGI			videotape

Note: The nightly distribution scripts copy the files from /usr/local
on these machines to the various servers.  Changes you make today will
get to the users tomorrow.

Installation
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Install packages in the directory, /share/open_bin/<pkg> where <pkg>
is the name of the package.

Each package will include:

	1) A copy of the description file

	2) A cshrc file that sets up the environment for
		csh and tcsh users.

	3) A profile file that sets up the environment for
		sh, bash, and ksh users.

	4) The tool itself.

Versions
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Keeping more than one version of a open source tool around
is discouraged.  When it must be done, store the package in
/share/open_bin/<pkg>/<version>.

Each <version> directory should have it's own "cshrc" and "profile"
files.   In addition top level "cshrc" and "profile" files should be
stored in /share/open_bin/<pkg>, which points to the preferred version.
These files can be updated as new versions become available.