Re: Where are license files expected to reside?

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On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 12:49 PM Mattia Verga <mattia.verga@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Does the license files of an installed foo package need to reside under /usr/share/licenses/foo/ or can they reside anywhere and the packager just needs to ensure they're installed?
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> The question comes out from a review of a python package [1]: since python package already installs license files properly marked as such into the dist-info dir of the package, do we have to install them using the %license tag also? I would expect them to be under /usr/share/licenses but there's nothing in the packaging guidelines about this.

FWIW I don't see this as a Fedora legal issue - assuming a particular
license file should be installed somewhere in the file system as a
legal matter (or otherwise), where that should be is a matter of
Fedora packaging convention.

Richard
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