On Tuesday 27 July 2010, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > On 07/26/2010 07:25 PM, M A Young wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Jul 2010, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > >> You're going to need to include all applicable license texts, sorry. > > > > I have commited a spec file that puts all the COPYING and LICENSE files > > into a new xen-licenses package (I don't what to include that many files > > twice). > > This is an excellent idea. Wouldn't it make sense to take it further and > create a couple dozen packages for all major licenses (GPL 2, 3, BSD, > MIT, Artistic, Apache etc etc) and specify the correct ones as > dependencies of respective packages?
I suppose the Q&A section in the original announcement is intended to cover this. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-July/000631.html | Q. Why can't we just have a "fedora-licenses" package which has copies | of all the licenses in Fedora and just always install it? | A. Maintaining that package would be a huge pain. We have a LOT of | licenses in Fedora and they change all the time, often without notice. | However, if you'd like to write some code to help us minimize duplicate | license files on the filesystem with a "common-licenses" package, then | you should look at http://rpm.org/ticket/116. Have I mentioned that I'd | like that functionality added to rpm? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
