Does License tag include manuals?

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Tue Mar 15 18:45:49 UTC 2011


On Sat, 2011-03-12 at 12:54 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> writes:
> > lordsawar has a gfdl manual that is installed. Does that need to be reflected
> > in the license tag such that it should be GPLv2+ and GFDL1.1+, instead of
> > just GPLv2+?
> 
> legal at lists.fedoraproject.org would be the right place to ask that,
> but I'm pretty sure the answer you'll get is "yes".
> 
> You could possibly split the manual into a documentation subpackage
> with its own License: tag if you wanted to keep the license tags clear.

FWIW, when I have a package with a complex licensing case, I usually
stick a comment in the spec explaining exactly what stuff is under each
license.
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