F20 System Wide Change: Web Assets

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Tue Aug 6 16:46:43 UTC 2013


On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 17:48:23 +0200
Till Maas <opensource at till.name> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 03:05:21PM -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 1:44 AM, Till Maas <opensource at till.name>
> > wrote:
> > > The guideline should be to ask upstream to fix the meta data. In
> > > case of missing license text (e.g. source code with a GPL header
> > > but no copy of the GPL itself), it is also upstream's task to fix
> > > it and the packager's to ask for it. And if upstream fixes it,
> > > the debian font packagers do not need to replicate Fedora's
> > > effort.
> > 
> > We absolutely want this fixed upstream first.  I adjusted the draft
> > to reflect this:
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Patches/PackagingDrafts/FontsPolicy
> > 
> > Sometime this week I'm going to file bugs against all the affected
> > font packages to give packages an opportunity to work with their
> > upstreams to correct this.
> 
> Please provide actual recommendations about how to run the ttname
> command to the guidelines before filing bugs. And get the guideline
> approved to avoid unnecessary changes. Also this does not seem to be
> really a MUST guideline as long as it is not a MUST guideline to add
> the GPL license text to all GPL licensed packages if the license text
> is not included.

If you are going to file a bunch of bugs, PLEASE see: 

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mass_bug_filing

Thanks, 

kevin
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