Re: license-tag purpose/goal (Was: Re: SPDX Statistics - R.U.R. edition)

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* Mark Wielaard [19/02/2024 18:24] :
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> So at some point RPM/Fedora adopted the %license directive.

This was nearly a decade ago, in the F21/F22 era.
https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/411

> Which basically meant that we would always include the full declared
> license of the project.

This assumes the upstream tarball contains a file with the text of the
license it is under.

To the best of my knowledge, a packager should not use %license if
this is not the case and no one should assume a package contains it.

>                         Do you happen to know why after this the
> License field was (also) kept?

I believe the only thing discussed at the time was not implementing
%license, due to it being seen as redundant to License. 

Emmanuel
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