[Fedora-legal-list] Question about License field

Luis Villa luis at tieguy.org
Wed Oct 31 19:25:50 UTC 2012


Where are the relevant sections of the packaging guidelines? Sorry I
can't JFGI but today is sort of a mess. (And as you suspected, I'll
have a bug to file shortly.)

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III
<tibbs at math.uh.edu> wrote:
>>>>>> "LV" == Luis Villa <luis at tieguy.org> writes:
>
> LV> Quick Q about the license field in a Fedora-produced RPM: What does
> LV> "/" mean in the License field?
>
> It has no defined meaning, as such a License: field is not permitted by
> the packaging guidelines.  Those guidelines specify a rather precise
> format in the case of multiple licenses, and indicate additional
> requirements for describing what files are under which license.
>
> If you see a package with invalid or incomplete licensing information,
> please report it.
>
>  - J<


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