Re: [Fedora-packaging] Duplicate files
On 11/11/2009 01:44 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
Seems fine to me as long as we otherwise stick to our prohibition on
file duplication. Do we need to somehow define "license files"? If
documentation specifies "this is GPL", does that make it a license file?
Does the presence of a COPYING file change the answer? (I know, it's a
relatively pointless question, but I know with certainty that it won't
be too long before it is asked in a package review.)
I've had the idea for some time that it would be ideal if rpm supported
something like this:
%files
%doc foo bar
%license COPYING
That would make it clear what the license file is, from an RPM
perspective. From a definition perspective, I define a license file as:
"A copy of the legal text which defines the copyright on the work and
the permissions or restrictions placed upon that work by the copyright
holder(s)."
So, COPYING (where COPYING is a copy of the GPLv3 license text) is a
license file. A README.txt which simply says "This code is under GPLv3."
is not a license file.
Worth mentioning in the Licensing guidelines?
~spot