On Jul 29, 07 00:28:32 +0200, Christian Boltz wrote:
I'd propose to put only licenses that are used at least by 10 packages in the licenses package. This solves several problems: - the non-existing space saving effect I mentioned above - the risk of having to keep old licenses (as mentioned by Robert) just to stay backward-compatible is reduced (because at least some of the packages will still be using it ;-) - the licenses package would be smaller - no need to split it
No. The point in having /usr/share/doc/licenses is that this establishes one single location where all licenses used in a product are visible. So the content of the licenses.rpm should not only be comprehensive, but also exact. We can easily ignore any space saving effects.
# zgrep License: ARCHIVES.gz | sed 's/.*License: //' | sort | uniq -c |sort -nr [...]
Of course these numbers aren't set in stone because already an additional space makes "another" GPL version, but you should get the point
we have 20 or 30 textual variations of the same GPL, if I recall correctly.
- it's pointless to move the "YaST License" to the licenses package.
-au contraire.
BTW: I'm curious about the legal status of packages with License: No license agreement found in package ... ;-)
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