rpmbuild rejects "Copyright:" in .spec

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 14 May 2005 12:40:36 -0400 (EDT), D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:

> Apparently the "Copyright" tag has been removed from the rpm spec
> language.  It has been replaced with "License".  One result is:
> 
>   $ rpmbuild -ta jove4.16.0.65.tgz
>   error: Legacy syntax is unsupported: copyright
>   error: line 35: Unknown tag: Copyright: Copyright (C) 1986-2002 by Jonathan Payne, freely redistributable
> 
> This is the first I've heard that this tag was deprecated.  Surely it
> would be better to issue a warning for a release cycle before
> completely rejecting it. 

The tag is deprecated for a long time already. You could have used
the "License:" tag much (!) earlier already.

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