[Fedora-legal-list] Re: Should I mention Build-scripts' licensing terms in a spec's License field?

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On Thu, Aug 1, 2024 at 7:10 AM Vít Ondruch <vondruch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Dne 01. 08. 24 v 12:54 Neal Gompa napsal(a):
> > On Thu, Aug 1, 2024 at 6:33 AM Miroslav Suchý <msuchy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Dne 01. 08. 24 v 12:28 odp. Peter Lemenkov napsal(a):
> >>> Hello!
> >>> I stumbled upon the following situation. I am packaging a library
> >>> under MIT license. However the upstream-provided build-script in a
> >>> tarball explicitly licensed under ISC license (has a header with ISC
> >>> license). If it matters I do not use this script for building at all.
> >>> So I have two questions.
> >>>
> >>> 1. If a tarball has a differently licensed file which is not going to
> >>> a final RPM should I still list its license in a spec's %license
> >>> field?
> >>> 2. Does it change anything if this file wasn't used at all during RPM
> >>> build process?
> >>>
> >> See
> >>
> >>     https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-legal-docs/-/issues/61
> >>
> >>   > Does not affect the License tag. But the license of the file must be from the allowed list.
> >>
> > That's not the full answer. We do have a way to represent this
> > information by using the SourceLicense tag.
>
>
> I don't think this tag is reflected in our guidelines or is it?

No, because hardly anyone seems to be using it.

Richard

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