[Bug 1356048] Review Request: rtlsdr-scanner - Frequency scanning GUI for RTL2832 based DVB-T dongles

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1356048



--- Comment #18 from Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad@xxxxxxxxxx> ---
(In reply to Antonio Trande from comment #17)
> (In reply to Jaroslav Škarvada from comment #16)
> > (In reply to Antonio Trande from comment #15)
> > > (In reply to Jaroslav Škarvada from comment #12)
> > > > (In reply to Antonio Trande from comment #11)
> > > > 
> > > > Why it should provide its own license file? The docs are licensing under the
> > > > same license as the main package and it's dependent on the main package,
> > > > from the doc:
> > > > 
> > > > > Both this document and the RLTSDR Scanner is licensed under the GNU General
> > > > > Public License version 3 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html).
> > > > 
> > > > According to [1]:
> > > > > If a subpackage is dependent (either implicitly or explicitly) upon a base
> > > > > package (where a base package is defined as a resulting binary package from the
> > > > > same source RPM which contains the appropriate license texts as %license),
> > > > > it is not necessary for that subpackage to also include those license
> > > > > texts as %license.
> > > 
> > > Ah sorry, I didn't seen the dependency. But does it really need main package?
> > > 
> > 
> > %package doc
> > Summary: Documentation files for rtlsdr-scanner
> > Requires: %{name} = %{version}-%{release}
> > BuildArch: noarch
> > 
> > Requires is the explicit dependency, i.e. you cannot install the doc
> > subpackage without the main package.
> 
> Yes, I understand but why? :)

Sorry, are you joking or what?

> 
> > 
> > > > 
> > > > Well, I have now a dilemma, whether the resulting license is GPLv3 or GPLv3+
> > > > as stated on the different place of the sources. I took the documentation as
> > > > more authoritative source and fixed the resulting license to be GPLv3, but I
> > > > will query upstream about their intention.
> > > > 
> > > > [1]
> > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:
> > > > LicensingGuidelines#Subpackage_Licensing
> > > 
> > > They should not be dependent among them and should have different License
> > > tags in any case.
> > > 
> > What? There is clearly written that both are licensed under one (i.e. the
> > same) license. The question is whether it is GPLv3 or GPLv3+, I bet it's
> > only typo (or copy and paste error ) or upstream just didn't think about the
> > nuance of v3 vs v3+. From the data available you *cannot* deduce that the
> > doc is licensed under GPLv3 and the code under GPLv3+.
> 
> In fact, from PDF file:
> 
> License
> Both this document and the RLTSDR Scanner is licensed under the GNU General
> Public License
> version 3
> 
> But readme.rd disagrees.
> 
How is this different from what I wrote earlier?

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