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

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Mon Apr 20 15:10:44 UTC 2009


On 04/20/2009 06:28 AM, Mattias Ellert wrote:
> The question at hand is not whether the tarball contains inlined or
> detached licenses. The question is which tarball the guideline refers
> to. If it is the large upstream installer it does include a detached
> license file. If it is the extracted tarball it does not.

*puts on his Fedora Legal hat*

Does the tarball that you're using as Source0 (or whatever Source lines
are in the spec) contain a separate (and relevant) license text file? If
so, you MUST have it as %doc. If not, you (the packager) can choose to
add it to the package as %doc if you want, but you are NOT required to
do so.

Hope that helps,

~spot




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