On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 04:00:05PM -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
B) Many licenses require that any distribution include the license text. Red Hat Legal was very uncomfortable with us using a rpm dependency to meet that requirement.
It's interesting you should mention this. I try to include the license file in the main package and all subpackages (eg. in foo and foo-devel), but often reviewers see this as a bug and ask me to include the license only in the main package.
An example of this, I'm not picking on Jason Tibbitts in particular:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476622#c11
Rich.