Licensing Guidelines Update - Please Read

Ankur Sinha sanjay.ankur at gmail.com
Thu Jul 8 14:48:28 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 10:00 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On 07/08/2010 04:39 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> > Can you please clarify this one? The sub packages depend on the -common,
> > which has the LICENSE etc. docs. Is this because the main package
> > doesn't Requires: -common?
> 
> Caveat: I have not looked at your specific spec, so I am hypothesizing here.
> 
> Lets say that your beteckna-fonts SRPM generates these binary RPMS:
> 
> - beteckna-fonts
> - beteckna-fonts-common
> - beteckna-fonts-shiny
> 
> If both "beteckna-fonts" and "beteckna-fonts-shiny" depend (either
> implicitly or explicitly) on "beteckna-fonts-common", and
> "beteckna-fonts-common" has the license texts in it, you do not need to
> do anything.
> 
> If "beteckna-fonts" (or "beteckna-fonts-shiny") does not depend (either
> implicitly or explicitly) on "beteckna-fonts-common", then you will need
> to add copies of the license text to that package.
> 
> ~spot

okay, 

got it. thanks!!

Ankur




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