Regarding presence of license information in source files

[Lakshmi Narasimhan T V]

Hello,

Is it mandatory for all the source code files in a  package to have license
information explicitly mentioned in each of them? For instance, in a
package there is a LICENSE file containing the license text. However the
name of the license is not mentioned in each of the source file.
Can this package be still included in Fedora or does the packager wait for
upstream to make required change (include license information) in each of
the source files?

Thanks,

[Tom Callaway]

On 10/15/2011 02:03 AM, [e-mail] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is it mandatory for all the source code files in a  package to have
> license information explicitly mentioned in each of them? For instance,
> in a  package there is a LICENSE file containing the license text.
> However the name of the license is not mentioned in each of the source
> file.
> Can this package be still included in Fedora or does the packager wait
> for upstream to make required change (include license information) in
> each of the source files?

It is not mandatory, however it is strongly preferred. In cases where
the LICENSE file provides the appropriate information and there is no
reason to believe that any of the sources are not covered by that
LICENSE file, that software can be included in Fedora. In such
situations, packagers should ask upstream to consider adding per-file
licensing attribution in a future release.

~tom

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