[Fedora-packaging] License Tag Draft

[Stephen John Smoogen]

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

With that having the gory bits. The problem I see is that for these
side cases.. you are ending up with

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