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Hello, On Feb 5 11:45 Marcus Meissner wrote (excerpt):
On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 11:40:24AM +0100, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
What would be really cool is if we could do it the same way like Gentoo.
You simply have /usr/portage/licenses/ with all the licenses in the system and you package just say "I am BSD-3c" and same like all other pkgs with the same license point to that one file. ... There was an attempt to do something like that in openSUSE in the
Tomáš Chvátal wrote: past already. I can't remember anymore why it failed though.
I think the legal team wanted the licenses more explicit and really in the package instead of symlinks into the shared licenses RPM.
I only like to confirm that I also remember that this was the legal reason why one cannot legally remove a license file from a software package and replace it with a link. Furthermore I wonder how to 100% ensure that a license file in such a shared licenses RPM will never ever change because otherwise licenses in software packages that only link to it could become wrong. Finally I wonder why at all starting any hassle with licenses. According to my experience the best behaviour with any legal issue is to not do anything (in particular never change anything) except there is a vaild request from a legal expert. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg)