On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 11:10:34AM -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > However, some packagers absolutely insist on duplicating license files > (say, once in the main package, and again in the -devel package) and > this issue keeps coming up. And it'll keep coming up in future too. We are distributing binary packages which you can download independently from http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/i386/os/Packages/ using just a web browser or 'wget'. Web browsers and wget don't understand RPM dependencies, and RPM files can be unpacked by a variety of software, not just the rpm program. Some of those binary packages have the license stripped from them. The GPLv2 clearly says you should not do this: 1. [...] and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
