Hi, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 02:33:49PM -0500, Richard Fontana wrote: >> > For reference: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/411 >> >> I assume that the comments there about hardlinking are still accurate. > > That we could do it but aren't? Yes. > > >> A long time ago I suggested that Fedora consider adopting what I >> understand the Debian convention to be, which is to have a single copy >> of several widely used license files in a directory called >> /usr/share/common-licenses, referenced as needed from a per-package >> debian/copyright file. From a license compliance standpoint the Debian >> approach has some merit. > > Perhaps the SPDX effort provides a good point to look at that idea again. Why are we not using the SPDX license identifiers in our spec files, this would simplify deduplicating licenses tremendously? _______________________________________________ packaging mailing list -- packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to packaging-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
