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

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Fri Dec 16 15:35:44 UTC 2011


On 12/15/2011 05:05 PM, Brendan Jones wrote:

>> fyi, rpmdevtools rpm includes a handy 'licensecheck' tool.

> 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.

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

The only read limitation is that the tool scans single files (but 
automating that for a source tree isn't hard using find and/or xargs).

otherwise, I'd say "just do it"(tm) and add to the wiki

-- rex


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