[Fedora-packaging] License landscape (and question of best pratice)

Tom 'spot' Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Tue Mar 7 14:46:21 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 12:02 +0000, Jose' Matos wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 March 2006 11:49, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > >  or allow the fully license as
> > > described in the DESCRIPTION file?
> >
> > Do you mean the %description tag? I am opposed to this.
> 
>   Nope. DESCRIPTION is the the counterpart of the spec file in R modules, 
> where all the information that R uses to build the module is placed.
> 
>   So the setence above should be read as:
> 
> ... or allow the full license as described by author in the R module.

I'd say, include DESCRIPTION as %doc, and keep License: as simple as
possible.

~spot
-- 
Tom "spot" Callaway: Red Hat Senior Sales Engineer || GPG ID: 93054260
Fedora Extras Steering Committee Member (RPM Standards and Practices)
Aurora Linux Project Leader: http://auroralinux.org
Lemurs, llamas, and sparcs, oh my!




More information about the Fedora-packaging mailing list