Package policies

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The Alpine Linux Package Policies describe some of the policies when creating packages.

Package Names

All package names should be lowercase.
Development files are placed in subpackages with -dev suffix (i.e uclibc-dev)
Documentation files are placed in subpackages with -doc suffix (i.e expat-doc)
Lua modules (not applications) are prefixed with lua-. (i.e lua-posix)
Perl modules (not applications) are prefixed with perl-. (i.e perl-xml-parser)
Python modules (not applications) are prefixed with py-. (i.e py-libxml2)
Kernels and 3rdparty modules should be suffixed with the kernel flavor. (i.e -grsec or -vserver)

Package versions

Package versions are similar to gentoo.

Licensing

The license of the program should be based on the licenses approved by the Free Software Foundation or OSI.
If you are unsure about the license, please ask in our IRC channel.