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While it's certainly not high priority, I noticed that too. Found it a bit irritating when I assembled my first PKGBUILD and couldn't really agree on one or the other.

I've noticed that too. IMHO all custom licenses should be installed right into /usr/share/licenses

From the makepkg manpage:

license
This field specifies the license(s) that apply to
the package. Commonly-used licenses are typically
found in /usr/share/licenses/common. If you see
the package's license there, simply reference it
in the license field (eg, license="GPL"). If the
package provides a license not found in
/usr/share/licenses/common, then you should
include the license in the package itself and set
license="custom" or license="custom:LicenseName".
The license itself should be placed in a directory
called $startdir/pkg/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname.

If multiple licenses are applied, use the array
form: licenses=('GPL' 'FDL')

So custom licenses should be in /usr/share/licenses/$pkgname

So all packages that place licenses in /usr/share/licenses/custom/$pkgname should be fixed.
On my machine these are ttf-bitsream-vera, ttf-dejavu and unrar (custom/rarsoft !).

Also, some of files are named license.txt, others LICENSE.

find /var/abs/ -name PKGBUILD | xargs grep licenses/custom | sed 's|/PKGBUILD.*||' | sort | uniq

I'd say just name the file like the original.

Some licenses are still placed in the wrong directory:

$ pacman -Qo /usr/share/licenses/LEGAL.NOTICE
/usr/share/licenses/LEGAL.NOTICE is owned by file 4.21-2

$ ls /usr/share/licenses/custom/
openssh ttf-bitstream-vera

$ pacman -Q openssh ttf-bitstream-vera
openssh 4.7p1-1
ttf-bitstream-vera 1.10-5

Added Andy for file and bitstream.

I can get openssh later too unless you want to do it.

openssh is currently in testing, so how about killing it off this list?

Sorry 'bout that - I committed the change to CVS and will pick it up on the next build (I don't believe it warrants a rebuild right now, due to the fact that we don't actually DO anything with the license field just yet)

With the new ttf-dejavu package (2.23-1) all files in my /usr/share/licenses looks fine, perhaps time to close this (and reopen in case someone else finds a misplaced license file)? ttf-bitstream-vera is still wrong, but fixed in CVS so whenever that package is rebuilt it should be fixed.

The only ones still left in [extra] are:
- flashplayer-standalone
- blas
- ttf-bitstream-vera (fixed in CVS, as already noted)

phrakture: why do I still have /var/abs/testing/core/support/openssh?

Well, flashplayer-standalone is also fixed in CVS, and flagged out-of-date so it should hopefully get fixed soon. And blas is also fixed in CVS, though I don't know when it's getting updated. Probably when/if they do a extra rebuild like they did for core.

@byte: Ah, only the PKGBUILD was untagged as TESTING. Fixed

So this leaves only blas, correct?

The notice from core/support/ipw3945d/ipw3945d.install is the only one left, it seems.
Everything else is either fixed in HEAD or from community. By the way, latest ttf-bitstream-vera is only tagged CURRENT-64.

Another (very bikesheddy) thing I noticed:
Now that the dirname is clear, there's no consensus on the filename; some prefer license.txt, another one uses LICENSE, and others just copy the original file, if any.
But it's so irrelevant that I wouldn't post a bug for that, even if it's #9999. ;]

phrakture: openshh/PKGBUILD Rev. 1.66 is still tagged TESTING/TESTING-64 :p

What is left here? Are we close to closing this?

flashplayer-standalone and ttf-bitstream-vera are left (seems like old CVS HEAD didn't go into SVN), for the ones in community I left comments in AUR.

Btw, I noticed there are some differences between 32-bit and 64-bit ABS checkouts -- just to be clear, I only grep for 32-bit stuff.

Seems only flashplayer-standalone is left. Assigning to brain0 for that reason