why reject "legacy" 'Copyright:' tag ?

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Hi Jeff -
Having just upgraded to rpm-4.4.1-0.18, rpmbuild now refuses to build
DHCP with the current dhcp.spec - I had to change 
   'Copyright: distributable'
to 
   'License: distributable'
rpmbuild rejected the 'Copyright' tag with the message:
"
error: Legacy syntax is unsupported: copyright
error: line 6: Unknown tag: Copyright: distributable
"
This seems just silly to me.
RPM obviously recognizes the "Legacy syntax" - why not 
just turn this into a warning instead of an error ?
Now many packages will fail to build and will have to be 
rebuilt simply because of this new incompatible spec file
syntax change - I think RPM should try to be backward
compatible regarding spec file syntax.
Ideas ? Opinions ? Is this a bug ?
Regards,
Jason Vas Dias. 

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