On Sun, 2019-05-19 at 17:15 +0200, Felix Schwarz wrote: > I have a question regarding license tags in spec files for software under > multiple licenses (bundled libraries): > - The main software is licensed under a 3-clause BSD. > - The software bundles a library under ASL 2 in subfolder /foo > > As far as I know the correct license tag for the Fedora package is > License: BSD and ASL 2.0 > > If I do > rm -rf <...>/foo > in %prep the ASL-licensed code is never executed, compiled and not present in > the final binary. Can I change the license tag to "BSD" in that case? Based on your example, yes: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/LicensingGuidelines/ "The License: field refers to the licenses of the contents of the *binary* rpm." > (I could also clean the source code before importing it for Fedora but I like > using unmodified upstream archives.) That is only necessary when the sources contain legally encumbered code, which doesn't sound like the case here. -- Yaakov Selkowitz Senior Software Engineer - Platform Enablement Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
