On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 09:23 +0100, Tim Jackson wrote: > Christopher Stone wrote: > > > This has been brought up in discussions before: > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2006-March/msg00004.html > > The bottom line is that Header tags SHOULD not be used to determine the > > license. > > Is it not redundant then? IMO, the License:-tag should be considered to be a short informative abbreviated description for the actual licensing, and not to be considered a legally binding description. > > We want to encourage people to read the ACTUAL license itself, not our > > header tags. Things in practice are much more complicated. Developers wanting to use a package for development will have to dive into the source code in any case. For normal Fedora users, the License-tag, a "LICENSE" file and the source files are equally uninteresting. Ralf -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
