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Re: [opensuse-packaging] Building packages with linking a license from licenses.rpm
- From: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:57:24 +0200
- Message-id: <46A5F734.7050809@xxxxxxx>
Johannes Meixner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Jul 24 14:17 Marcus Rueckert wrote:
>> as the symlink points to filenames which is the md5sum of the license
>> itself. i think this is not an issue.
>
> Can you explain in a bit more detail how such symlinks and
> filenames make sure that the right license texts are installed
> in the run-time system in any case?
The filename is an md5sum of the license text. So a new version of the
"same" (as in same name) license will have a different filename. So if
you link to /.../ebf4e8b49780ab187d51bd26aaa022c6, it will allways be
that exact version of the GPL2 license.
Michal
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> Hello,
>
> On Jul 24 14:17 Marcus Rueckert wrote:
>> as the symlink points to filenames which is the md5sum of the license
>> itself. i think this is not an issue.
>
> Can you explain in a bit more detail how such symlinks and
> filenames make sure that the right license texts are installed
> in the run-time system in any case?
The filename is an md5sum of the license text. So a new version of the
"same" (as in same name) license will have a different filename. So if
you link to /.../ebf4e8b49780ab187d51bd26aaa022c6, it will allways be
that exact version of the GPL2 license.
Michal
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