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Re: [opensuse-packaging] Building packages with linking a license from licenses.rpm
- From: Robert Schiele <rschiele@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:59:55 +0200
- Message-id: <20070725225952.GA30038@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 03:20:10PM +0200, Juergen Weigert wrote:
> 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.
If the FSF insists on having a copy in each RPM every Linux distributor that
separates libraries and headers in separate sub packages has a problem anyway
since typically the license is not in _all_ sub packages.
Robert
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Robert Schiele
Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:rschiele@xxxxxxxxx
"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur."
> 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.
If the FSF insists on having a copy in each RPM every Linux distributor that
separates libraries and headers in separate sub packages has a problem anyway
since typically the license is not in _all_ sub packages.
Robert
--
Robert Schiele
Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:rschiele@xxxxxxxxx
"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur."
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