[fab] [Fwd: What is the mkisofs license?]

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 14:03 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> >
> 
> I would like a FC7 goal of having at least the spec files patched to
> use the same 'terms' in every License: tag. GPL, Gnu Public License
> V2, etc makes a job for someone who has to look at these things for a
> 'site' harder. I would like to have the terms to be standardized a bit
> more to something like:
> 
> License: GPL (see COPYING for complete versions)
> License: Various (see LICENSES for versions and files applied)
> 
> etc. That way a person can go see that the license(s) is there, what
> file(s) are it in etc.
> 
> Having each packager go through that rigamarole might have them think
> : "Hmmm this code turns out to be CDDL/GPL/SCO combined code. Maybe I
> should find something else."

That's a pretty good idea IMHO.  Care to bring it to the Packaging
Committee and see if the standardization of the license descriptions can
be added to the guidelines?

josh