Is referencing the GPL in the package's README enough of a "license"?

Peter Gordon peter at thecodergeek.com
Wed Mar 7 06:13:44 UTC 2007


Hi, all.

I have a question about the legal status of a package I'm working on.
I'm nearly done with writing a nice package of Tavis Ormandy's scanmem
utility [1]. However, it contains no full license text, and the headers
in the source files only contain author/version informations. The only
reference to a license aside from what's on the website is that the
README file (which I include as %doc) contains the following line:

	License: GPL

Is this reference enough, or should I also include a full copy of the
GPL as %doc as well? (If so, I'll email Tavis and bug him about
including it in the tarball.)

Thanks. 

[1] http://taviso.decsystem.org/scanmem.html
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