[Fedora-legal-list] License files in debuginfo packages
Does Fedora/Red Hat Legal have any opinion on whether debuginfo packages
need to include license files?
Background:
There is a packaging guideline, drafted long ago according to
requirements given by the legal team, regarding the placement of license
files as they relate to subpackages:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:LicensingGuidelines#Subpackage_L...
However, RPM itself generates debuginfo packages automatically in a way
that's not really controllable by the packager. These packages do not
have dependencies on the base packages and will not generally include
license files.
Since, like drpms and such, they are a non-packager-controlled product
of the build system, the packaging committee hasn't ever considered them
subject to most guidelines besides a general "turn them off if they
aren't useful" rule. Personally I'd like to keep doing that, but an FPC
ticket was opened (https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/639), so....
I will relay any feedback back to the packaging committee.
- J<