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Re: [opensuse-packaging] Building packages with linking a license from licenses.rpm
- From: Petr Cerny <pcerny@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:40:26 +0200
- Message-id: <46A752CA.8090903@xxxxxxx>
Juergen Weigert wrote:
> Due to the symlink, the package has now one more dependency.
> It is simply an incomplete package, unless licenses.rpm is also installed.
> If the FSF insists on having a copy in each RPM, we can simply stop doing
> symlinks for GPL, and still have saved a tree with all the other licenses
> symlinked.
As GPL is (by guess) in most of our packages, it wouldn't make sense to
create license-package without GPL in it.
Best regards
Petr
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> Due to the symlink, the package has now one more dependency.
> It is simply an incomplete package, unless licenses.rpm is also installed.
> If the FSF insists on having a copy in each RPM, we can simply stop doing
> symlinks for GPL, and still have saved a tree with all the other licenses
> symlinked.
As GPL is (by guess) in most of our packages, it wouldn't make sense to
create license-package without GPL in it.
Best regards
Petr
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