Duplicated files in the pristine FC4t2 installation

[Hans de Goede]

Putting on evil hat:

I already was afraid that would be used as an argument, taking this over 
the top glibc-devel and glibc-common don't contain COPYING, only glibc does.

That can be explained in 2 ways:
-all (L)GPL devel rpms should be modified to include COPYING
-we can create a licenses.rpm  as long as its Requires: by rpms which
  fall under one of the licenses in licenses.rpm

Regards,

Hans


Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>About licenses what about a licenses.rpm which gets installed by default 
>>which contains most common licenses and which is an obligatory part of 
>>the base system. And then just put a ptr to the license in the rpm -qi 
>>info? That would also cleanout /usr/share/doc since quite a few dirs 
>>there only contain a copy of the GPL / MPL / whatever license
> 
> 
> problem is that the GPL at least requires you to ship the license with
> the software. And RPMs get used and for sure distributed outside
> fedora... 
> 
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