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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 15:27:43 +0200
- Message-id: <46A5FE4F.6050407@xxxxxxx>
Petr Cerny wrote:
> Michal Marek wrote:
>> 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.
>
> What if in the source package, the license file contains (by mistake) an
> additional newline? Who should do the actual checking, that the license
> is really GPL (whatever else)?
That's not a problem. For instance there's a pile of GPLv2 variations in
the licenses package ;)
> In this hash scheme, how can user display license using pager or editor?
???
> Also note that some packages have slightly modified licenses (like:
> author allows linking against some non-GPLed library) - will these
> licenses be bundled together with those "standard" ones?
AFAICS, the package contains all possible licenses found in packages.
Michal
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> Michal Marek wrote:
>> 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.
>
> What if in the source package, the license file contains (by mistake) an
> additional newline? Who should do the actual checking, that the license
> is really GPL (whatever else)?
That's not a problem. For instance there's a pile of GPLv2 variations in
the licenses package ;)
> In this hash scheme, how can user display license using pager or editor?
???
> Also note that some packages have slightly modified licenses (like:
> author allows linking against some non-GPLed library) - will these
> licenses be bundled together with those "standard" ones?
AFAICS, the package contains all possible licenses found in packages.
Michal
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