Licensing Guidelines Update - Please Read

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On 07/09/2010 11:32 AM, seth vidal wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 11:25 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
>> On 07/08/2010 05:35 PM, Paul wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>> [pfj] xmms: 1:xmms-libs-1.2.11-11.20071117cvs.fc14.x86_64
>>>
>>> Unless something very odd is going on here, xmms-libs does have the
>>> COPYING file included (just checked the spec file).
>>>
>>> Could it be that there is a problem with the build sys on x86_64 which
>>> is causing it to miss?
>>
>> No, it is simply that it isn't sanely scriptable to check to see if that
>> package actually has license text, so the script generated a list of
>> "probable" subpackage candidates to be manually checked.
>>
> I can add a few heuristics scanning the filelists of any pkg which is a
> potential positive - looking for COPYING* or LICENSE* it won't be
> perfect but I bet it'll reduce the false positives - unfortunately it
> will create some false negatives too.

Sure. Better than nothing.

~spot