On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 09:10:07PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 11:57:40AM -0500, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
>> On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 16:53 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>
>>> - Clarify where documentation should go. Currently my practice has
>>> been to put just the license file (if any) in the main package's
%doc,
>>> and the license file plus all other documentation & examples in
>>> the devel subpackage. This duplicates (only) the license file, but
>>> that seems acceptable since we shouldn't distribute software without
>>> its license.
>> -devel packages should Require the main package, thus, there really
>> isn't any need for the duplicate license copy.
>
> But you could still just install the main package and not devel, and
> then you are in the situation where Fedora has distributed a binary
> and basically removed the licensing information. It doesn't feel like
> the right thing to do to me (but IANAL).
>
No Spot means it the other way around, keep the license in the main package
and drop it from the -devel one as that requires the main package anyways.
Right, got it now.
Rich.
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