On 09/01/2009 03:13 PM, Kalev Lember wrote:
> On 08/31/2009 12:01 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> This should be "GPLv3+ and GPLv3+ with exceptions and GPLv2+ with
>> exceptions". The point here is not to write pretty English, but to be 100%
>> unambiguous and automatically parsable. If you replace that comma with
>> "and", rpmlint will no longer complain.
>
> Yes, that's what I also think. I mailed Jakub Jelinek (native gcc's
> maintainer) a week ago and suggested that the license tag should read
> "GPLv3+ and GPLv3+ with exceptions and GPLv2+ with exceptions", but it
> seems he wasn't at office last week. Pinged again today.
>
> Even if the license tag is slightly wrong, I think it should match the
> one in the native package and the change to license should propagate
> from the native gcc to mingw32-gcc.

Okay, got a reply from Jakub:

On 09/01/2009 03:22 PM, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
 > On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 03:13:13PM +0300, Kalev Lember wrote:
 >> On 08/25/2009 11:32 AM, Kalev Lember wrote:
 >>> I think the license tag should actually read:
 >>> GPLv3+ and GPLv3+ with exceptions and GPLv2+ with exceptions
 >>>
 >>> Is there a reason to use a license tag that rpmlint doesn't like?
 >>
 >> Hey,
 >>
 >> Did you get a chance to take a look at the license tag? See also
 >> Kevin Kofler's mail [1] in fedora-mingw list.
 >
 > gcc license tag is correct, if rpmlint doesn't like it, rpmlint has
 > to be changed.
 >
 >      Jakub


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Kalev
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