[Fedora-packaging] License Tag Draft

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Sat Jul 28 15:49:33 UTC 2007


On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 12:15 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Friday 27 July 2007, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> >
> > Utopia: RPM could support License(STRING), then we could have multiple
> > license tags for packages.
> 
> Provides could be (ab?)used for that, eg:
> 
> Provides: License(Apache2), License(BSD)
> Provides: License(Artistic||GPLv2+)

Wow. I can just hear yum choking on itself and dying.

I'd feel very sorry for the first person who did:

yum install "License(BSD)"

~spot




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