[Fedora-packaging] License Tag Draft

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Fri Jul 27 04:10:02 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 20:50 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Tom spot Callaway (tcallawa at redhat.com) said: 
> > > I think the tagging per file in comments is definitely overkill.
> > 
> > Most packages won't need it, and for those that do, it will make the
> > task for whomever is auditing the package (re: me) much simpler.
> 
> 73 packages that I have installed have some sort of multiple licensing.

?? 90% of all perl packages are multiple licensed.
These alone make several 100s of packages.

Not worth mentioning KDE/Qt which typically are licensed GPL*+QPL.

Also I am still missing a detailed list of all tags you want to force us
to use for BSD*ish, X11*ish and other licenses 

Ralf




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