While we are still waiting for Red Hat Legal to return specific answers on the licensing legal questions, I proposed a policy change in the interim to FESCO. This change was announced (and approved) during the FESCO meeting on September 8th, and revised by FESCO from then until now. The new policy is as follows: - Any package which includes a license text(s) in its own file from upstream MUST include that as %doc. (Note that this only covers license text(s) that appear in a text document, not situations where the license text is only embedded in source files. In those situations, you do not need to include source files as %doc) - If the package does not include license text(s) as a separate file from upstream, the packager SHOULD query upstream to include it. - Packagers are no longer required to add any license files which are not included from upstream. If you have already done this for your package(s), then you are not required to undo this, but can, at your discretion. The PackageReviewGuidelines have been updated to reflect this change in policy. Questions or comments are welcome. Thanks, ~spot -- Tom "spot" Callaway: Red Hat Senior Sales Engineer || GPG ID: 93054260 Fedora Extras Steering Committee Member (RPM Standards and Practices) Aurora Linux Project Leader: http://auroralinux.org Lemurs, llamas, and sparcs, oh my!
