On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 03:46:02PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > 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. > So if legal says that it's okay to rely on rpm dependencies to do this for us, you'd still insist on doing your own thing? -Toshio
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