Re: Important changes to software license information in Fedora packages (SPDX and more!)

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On Mon, Aug 01, 2022 at 01:28:03PM +0200, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > I do expect Fedora reviewers to do more than just look at a handful of
> > source files though. For any package review, the header of every source
> > file should checked. Random sampling is not sufficient to identify the
> > exceptions which do occur often, and are not usually mentioned in the
> > top level LICENSE file.  If there's no header present, then it is
> > implicitly under the global license, and it is fine to trust that for
> > the purposes of Fedora license tag.
> 
> I wish you good luck opening every single of the 167383 files in QtWebEngine 
> (checked with 5.15.8, but that is the order of magnitude for all versions) 
> to check the license header, if there is any to begin with. (Some of the 
> bundled libraries are of the "let's just drop in one license file that 
> applies to everything" kind, and it is named differently in each.)

I'm not saying a human would literally open each file manually. Tools
like 'licensecheck' can automate scanning and reporting from license
headers. Packagers should sanity check its output and examine any cases
where it failed. That's sufficiently accurate to fill in the License
header in the RPM spec as requested by the new guidelines IMHO.


With regards,
Daniel
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