[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 9:43 AM Richard Fontana <rfontana@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Yes, because it's relatively new and it's not that important most of
the time. It was added in RPM 4.18.



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