Licensing Guidelines Update - Please Read

Caolán McNamara caolanm at redhat.com
Thu Jul 8 07:44:34 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 16:29 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> Basically, what this means is this: If you maintain a package, and that
> package generates subpackages, then each subpackage must either include
> a copy of the appropriate licensing texts (as available in the source),
> or it must Require (either implicitly or explicitly) another subpackage
> which does include the appropriate licensing texts.

Is there any point in say, splitting a package into an additional
-licence/-doc subpackage and adding Requires on that from the other
subpackages ?

C.





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