On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 11:10:29AM -0700, Wichmann, Mats D wrote: > The license tag is used to define the license terms applicable to the > software being packaged. This tag is also known as the copyright tag. It's my understanding that the copyright tag is _replaced_ by the better-named license tag. > But of course the two are not the same thing at all. That's right. :) > A piece of software I write might be released > under the GPL license, but copyright Mats Wichmann. > I've always been irritated if I fill in both > tags appropriately, I don't get quite what I > expect :-( The RPM header just isn't the right place for copyright information. (Especially with open source software, where it's not unlikely that there's hundreds of copyright holders.) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
