On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 21:53 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On 7/22/07, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > But what I'd like to see added at the same time are some automatic check > > to make sure properly done license changes get noticed automatically. A > > basic "sha1sum the LICENSE file from upstream (most ship one) once and > > put a small script into the %pre section that compares the know sha1sum > > with the current one from the tarball and aborts if something changed" > > should find properly done license changes automatically and keeps load > > off the maintainer. > > That's actually a pretty good idea i think. For a lot of packages... > packages that can easily define a set of license/copying files... ... __can__ ... the critical cases are those which don't. > this > sort of automatic file checking would help flag problems. In trivial cases such as the GPLv3 change, it could help. In cases of packages changing from FOO-license v1.283 to BAR-license v32.100 it doesn't. In cases of packages pointing to web-sites, it doesn't ... etc. If you try to track these you'll end up with 100s of different license tags - This would require the often mentioned bureaucracy. > Granted its > not going to work for all packages, but it might help a lot in the > specific case of entire project codebases transitioning to gpl3 from a > previous license. If you think so, I disagree. You are driving away contributors from fedora, by imposing more and more bureaucracy. If you really want this YOU (Jef Spaleta in person) will have to do it yourselves. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
