Re: Thoughts on pyproject-rpm-macros and license files?

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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?
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