[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
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