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

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Mattias Ellert wrote:

> Here is a description of the problem at hand:
> 
> When upstream distributes sources in a gigantic installer containing the
> sources for 300+ packages it doesn't make sense to include this full
> tarfile for each SRPM, since less than 1% of it is used to compile each
> package. Instead the relevant subdirectory is extracted from this beast
> (properly documented in the specfile in accordance to the packaging
> guidelines).
> 

What's the bugzilla URL?  I think people have answered the licence
question pretty well but I'm curious to see how the split up of the 300+
packages is being accomplished.  That seems like it would be a more
contentious area.

-Toshio

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