https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1531955 --- Comment #18 from Alec Leamas <leamas.alec@xxxxxxxxx> --- Again, I think I understand your reasoning. That said, my position is that you will need to copy all of them. There are a formal and a practical aspect of this. Formally, the GL reguires you to include all license files, no exceptions. Practically, as an example look at e. g., /apps/seqcons2/LICENSE and /apps/bs_tools/LICENSE. These are both BSD (3-clause) and, as I understand it, you deem them as the same. However: $ diff apps/seqcons2/LICENSE apps/bs_tools/LICENSE < // Seqcons2 - Compute consensus from sequences. --- > // SeqAn - The Library for Sequence Analysis 4c4 < // Copyright (c) 2011-2015, Manuel Holtgrewe, FU Berlin --- > // Copyright (c) 2006-2016, Knut Reinert, FU Berlin 15c15 < // * Neither the name of Manuel Holtgrewe or the FU Berlin nor the names of --- > // * Neither the name of Knut Reinert or the FU Berlin nor the names of 22c22 < // ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL MANUEL HOLTGREWE OR THE FU BERLIN BE LIABLE --- > // ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL KNUT REINERT OR THE FU BERLIN BE LIABLE 31,32d30 < // ========================================================================== < // Author: Manuel Holtgrewe <manuel.holtgrewe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> They are *not* the same. Excluding any of these actually means excluding the copyright notice, the very point of the license file. Of course, we cannot do that. Also note that the very condition of BSD code is that you must always distribute the license together with the code. Sorry, but both from a formal and practical standpoint I cannot see any other solution than distributing all these files. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are always notified about changes to this product and component _______________________________________________ package-review mailing list -- package-review@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to package-review-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
