Request for approval: perl-Mail-SPF-Query and perl-Net-CIDR-Lite

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Mon Jul 18 15:31:01 UTC 2005


Steven Pritchard wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 03:51:48PM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>>Bad:
>>- license text not included in %%doc
>>
>>I guess you could auto-generate this using:
>>
>>perldoc -t perlgpl
>>and
>>perldoc -t perlartistic
>>
>>Virtually all other perl module packages in Extras also neglect to 
>>include the license text, so I don't know how hard and fast this 
>>particular rule is.
> 
> 
> Since most perl modules just say "you can redistribute it and/or
> modify it under the same terms as Perl itself" (the README included in
> %doc says that), I would think that would be good enough.  If the
> module includes Artistic or COPYING, I would definitely include it in
> the package, but generating it for each package that doesn't seems a
> bit excessive to me.
> 
> I'm not violently opposed to the idea or anything though, so if that's
> what is decided, I'll do it...

I agree with you personally, but not everyone else does.

See: 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2005-July/msg00039.html 
for the last time I brought this up.

Paul.




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