Licensing Guidelines Update - Please Read

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Fri Jul 9 16:48:12 UTC 2010


On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 11:47 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On 07/09/2010 11:32 AM, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 11:25 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> >> On 07/08/2010 05:35 PM, Paul wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>>> [pfj] xmms: 1:xmms-libs-1.2.11-11.20071117cvs.fc14.x86_64
> >>>
> >>> Unless something very odd is going on here, xmms-libs does have the
> >>> COPYING file included (just checked the spec file).
> >>>
> >>> Could it be that there is a problem with the build sys on x86_64 which
> >>> is causing it to miss?
> >>
> >> No, it is simply that it isn't sanely scriptable to check to see if that
> >> package actually has license text, so the script generated a list of
> >> "probable" subpackage candidates to be manually checked.
> >>
> > I can add a few heuristics scanning the filelists of any pkg which is a
> > potential positive - looking for COPYING* or LICENSE* it won't be
> > perfect but I bet it'll reduce the false positives - unfortunately it
> > will create some false negatives too.
> 
> Sure. Better than nothing.
> 

done.

http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/indy-rockers-with-false-positives-marked.txt


and script updated here:
http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/indy-pkgs-for-spot.py

-sv




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