[Fedora-packaging] License Tag Draft

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 14:51 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On 7/27/07, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 11:26 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> > > On 7/27/07, Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > # For a breakdown of the licensing, see PACKAGE-LICENSING
> > >
> > > Actual would it be possible that we cut down the syntax to the following:
> > >
> > > License: see PACKAGE-LICENSING
> >
> > A downside of keeping all the information in a separate file is that it
> > doesn't end up in the metadata and so you have to explode out packages
> > to get at it.
> >
> 
> Well for most single license systems, i could see
> 
> License: GPLv2 see PACKAGE-LICENSING for more information
> License: Complicated see PACKAGE-LICENSING for more information
> License: Frickin' Complicated see PACKAGE-LICENSING for more information
> License: Spot Died For This Package see PACKAGE-LICENSING for more information

This is really overloading the License field, and sadly, a
"PACKAGE-LICENSING" file wouldn't really be any more legally binding.

Don't get me wrong, I'd be tickled pink if we did this, but it would add
a LOT of overhead, unless it was automatically generated at build time
and slid into the package.

~spot