[Fedora-packaging] Packaging of license file in case of extracted sources

[Mattias Ellert]

mån 2009-04-20 klockan 11:22 +0200 skrev Ralf Corsepius:
> This paragraph aims at the problem of tarballs containing
> "inlined licenses" vs. packages containing "detached licenses".
> 
> With
> * "inlined licenses": source files contain a "license section" within 
> their code.
> * "detached licenses": A tarball contains one or more files, describing 
> the source's contents.
> 
> 
> Somewhat oversimplified, this guideline essentially means: "If the 
> tarball has a license file, then you must include it - if it doesn't, 
> you must not create one"
> 
> 
> Ralf

The question at hand is not whether the tarball contains inlined or
detached licenses. The question is which tarball the guideline refers
to. If it is the large upstream installer it does include a detached
license file. If it is the extracted tarball it does not.

	Mattias

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