Should %license always be installed in /usr/share/licenses?

[Miro Hrončok]

Hi. An interesting question popped out during a PR review [1].


Should %license always be specified relative and installed to 
/usr/share/licenses like this:

     %license LICENSE

Or is it totally OK to specify it absolutely like this:

     %license %{_whatnot}/%{name}/LICENSE

?

Technically, both is possible and behaves like %doc.


[1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python38/pull-request/33

Thanks,
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[Jason L Tibbitts III]

> >>>> "MH" == Miro Hrončok
> <mhroncok(a)redhat.com&gt; writes: 
MH> Should %license always be specified relative and installed to
MH> /usr/share/licenses like this:

MH>     %license LICENSE

MH> Or is it totally OK to specify it absolutely like this:

MH>     %license %{_whatnot}/%{name}/LICENSE

As far as I understand things, both are quite OK.  If the upstream build
system actually installs the license file as part of %make_install then
you would certainly mark that instead of making another copy.  Otherwise
you could use the first form.  I know of no requirement that the license
files actually be placed in %_licensedir.

 - J<