Full Licence field

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Thu Mar 19 18:03:24 UTC 2009


On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:01:38PM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "KK" == Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> writes:
> 
> KK> This really needs a guideline.
> 
> It already is.  Is the existing guideline somehow unclear?  We tried
> to write it as clearly as possible.  "A Fedora package must not list a
> file more than once in the spec file's %files listings."  Where does
> that leave room for doubt about license files?

The packaging guidelines are clear, but also we might be breaking the
law by distributing binary packages (RPMs) without license files.  It
sounds like the packaging guidelines may need to be modified.

Rich.

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