> On Wednesday 10 October 2007 14:12:09 Jon Ciesla wrote: >> I'm not the person with the expertise to accomplish this, but would it >> be >> possible to have the rpm build process check the license tag of the >> current spec, query the license tags of BuildRequires, and die with an >> error if a license violation occurs? > > It would not solve the current problem (namely Samba relicensing): as > libsmbclient does not change its soname, a simple upgrade of Samba can > make > KDE modules be linked with GPLv3 code. > > That procedure that you described needs also to check license of packages > that > BuildRequires (rescursively) the package that is being rebuild. Exactly. > Maybe the repo construction step could check licensing. That does not seem > easy at all, though. Agreed. If it was easy, I'd have submitted a patch. :) > -- > Laurent Rineau > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LaurentRineau > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- novus ordo absurdum -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
