Re: Any way to set Epoch via the rpmbuild cmd line ?

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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.)

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Matthew Miller           mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx        <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux      ------>                <http://linux.bu.edu/>

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