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Julien Eid commented on BIGTOP-1367:
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[~rvs] As for the Fedora guidelines best practices for licenses, see here
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:LicensingGuidelines?rd=Packaging/LicensingGuidelines
These areas of text would be of interest:
"If the source package includes the text of the license(s) in its own file,
then that file, containing the text of the license(s) for the package must be
included in %doc. If the source package does not include the text of the
license(s), the packager should contact upstream and encourage them to correct
this mistake."
And as for subpackages see here:
"If a subpackage is dependent (either implicitly or explicitly) upon a base
package (where a base package is defined as a resulting binary package from the
same source RPM which contains the appropriate license texts as %doc), it is
not necessary for that subpackage to also include those license texts as %doc.
However, if a subpackage is independent of any base package (it does not
require it, either implicitly or explicitly), it must include copies of any
license texts (as present in the source) which are applicable to the files
contained within the subpackage."
"Usually, "%doc" is used to list documentation files within %{_builddir} that
were not copied to %{buildroot}. A README and INSTALL file is usually included.
They will be placed in an appropriate directory under /usr/share/doc, whose
ownership does not need to be declared."
So the Fedora guidelines recommend using %doc which will put them in
/usr/share/doc/PACKAGE, and you only have to include the licensing for the top
level package and not for the subpackage.
> Include LICENSES(.txt) and NOTICES(.txt) for every component
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>
> Key: BIGTOP-1367
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BIGTOP-1367
> Project: Bigtop
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Sean Mackrory
> Assignee: Sean Mackrory
>
> We need to make sure that every component includes the appropriate
> documentation of the open-source licenses they are distributed under. Not
> every package may include these documents, but every package should probably
> depend on the package that will provide them (e.g. zookeeper-server probably
> doesn't need to contain these documents, but it should depend on zookeeper
> which does need to contain these documents).
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