mingw32-gcc update
Kevin Kofler
kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sun Aug 30 21:01:27 UTC 2009
Kalev Lember wrote:
> The license of native gcc package has changed from:
> GPLv3+ and GPLv2+ with exceptions
> to:
> GPLv3+, GPLv3+ with exceptions and GPLv2+ with exceptions
>
> I have applied the license change to my copy mingw32-gcc spec file as
> well, although I should point out that rpmlint thinks the license is
> not valid:
> W: invalid-license GPLv3+, GPLv3+ with exceptions
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.
Kevin Kofler
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