Re: Full Licence field

[Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell gmail com>]

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie codewiz org> wrote:
[snip]
>> If we got agreement in those two places and on a list of common licenses
>> (even if one group just decides to symlink), we could get a majority of
>> distributions once the changes propogate.
>
> Seems like a great idea to me... But I think it already came up some
> time ago, and I vaguely remember that RH legal blocked it because the
> license itself -- not just a symlink to it -- had to accompany the
> package.

Or just ship the license with the package, but make the package
manager smart enough to hardlink common identical files.