[Fedora-packaging] Packaging of license file in case of extracted sources

Jussi Lehtola jussi.lehtola at iki.fi
Mon Apr 20 10:55:47 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 11:22 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

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> Somewhat oversimplified, this guideline essentially means: "If the 
> tarball has a license file, then you must include it - if it doesn't, 
> you must not create one"


I've never encountered hitherto an interpretation in which a license
file has to be created if upstream hasn't supplied any. AFAIK that is
the policy in Debian, not in Fedora.

Maybe it should be made clearer in the guidelines what must be done also
in this case.
-- 
Jussi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org




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