Apparently the "Copyright" tag has been removed from the rpm spec language. It has been replaced with "License". One result is: $ rpmbuild -ta jove4.16.0.65.tgz error: Legacy syntax is unsupported: copyright error: line 35: Unknown tag: Copyright: Copyright (C) 1986-2002 by Jonathan Payne, freely redistributable This is the first I've heard that this tag was deprecated. Surely it would be better to issue a warning for a release cycle before completely rejecting it. This is unlikely to take more code since "Copyright" is still being recognized enough to note that it is "Legacy syntax". Apparently this is not a new complaint. But FC4 is the first place I've bumped into the problem. http://www.redhat.com/archives/rpm-list/2005-February/msg00049.html What makes this more annoying for me is that Jove is my normal text editor so it is what I would normally use to fix this kind of problem. I don't have it on my new machine to fix itself. The Jove distribution attempts to support old systems, including those before "License" was introduced. That support will have to be dropped, at least as far as RPM is concerned. (Jove supports UNIX distributions as far back as 7th Edition -- that's how much we care about support for old systems.)