[Fedora-packaging] (re)introducing - fedora-review - tool to help with package reviews

[Brendan Jones]

On 12/15/2011 10:42 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> On 12/15/2011 02:58 PM, Brendan Jones wrote:
>
>> I find the most time consuming task in the review process is the license
>> check. I use a combination of find/head/grep commands to try and
>> determine if some of the source files have differing licenses to the
>> stated one in the spec. None of my methods guarantee 100% license
>> detection, given the sheer number of licenses out there, although if we
>> could consolidate all of the methods reviewers use for this we would
>> have a nifty tool indeed.
>>
>> Not sure if this is something which should be part of this package or
>> another entirely?
>
> fyi, rpmdevtools rpm includes a handy 'licensecheck' tool.
>
> -- rex

That is indeed handy.

What are the limitations of this tool? Are there reasons that prohibit 
it being listed as a tool in [1]? If not I'd be happy to update the wiki.

Brendan

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:LicensingGuidelines