multiple sub-programs, multiple licenses, one package?

[Tom 'spot' Callaway]

On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 12:16 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> Please, no! Maintenance overhead. Too much of a requirement for the
> packager. Imagine how long that line would get if a dozen small tools were
> included. The source tarball (we do ship src.rpms!) should include
> details. Other packages do "License: BSD, GPL" and that is informative
> enough for the binary package headers. Details as %doc or in the
> src.rpm.

I'm not opposed to that.

> > The other scenario is for large packages. If you've got a LOT of content
> > with varying licenses, then you should really think about splitting it
> > into subpackages, with their own License: setting.
> 
> I truely hope you are kidding.

Not really. elfutils does this successfully.

~spot
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