License text in binary packages

[Paul Howarth]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 23:37:32 -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
>>Does nobody else see this as a horribly hypocritical?  If Red Hat is 
>>serious about enforcing this rule, then first mandate it on Core to lead 
>>by example. 
> 
> 
> +1

<AOL>
Me too
</AOL>

>>Then everyone is forced to discuss the technical annoyances 
>>like below:
>>
>>How are we supposed to deal with cases where the source did not ship a 
>>full copy of the license in order to add to %doc easily?  We are 
>>supposed to add another copy of the license to each SRPM?
> 
> 
> Do we have examples for this? (other than a missing GPL "COPYING" file)

It's very common for both the GPL and Artistic license texts not to be 
shipped with perl modules that use the same license as perl (i.e. dual 
GPL/Artistic).

Paul.