#4265 BLOC -: OLPC needs to comply with the GPL (eg "COPYING" file barely present in binary builds)

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#4265: OLPC needs to comply with the GPL (eg "COPYING" file barely present in
binary builds)
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  Reporter:  gnu      |       Owner:  mako    
      Type:  task     |      Status:  assigned
  Priority:  blocker  |   Milestone:          
 Component:  distro   |     Version:          
Resolution:           |    Keywords:          
  Verified:  0        |    Blocking:          
 Blockedby:  5694     |  
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Comment(by gnu):

 I'm glad to see this proceeding toward resolution.

 And this sort of don't-change-much fix seems essential since we're toward
 the end of a release cycle.

 But wouldn't the right fix, for all subsequent releases, be to have our
 build process NOT throw away the license files that the Fedora RPM's are
 already careful to install?  Otherwise, as the set of files in the base
 system evolves, and their licenses evolve, a custom license package will
 go out of date and require manual maintenance.

 (If keeping the RPM licenses results in 77 copies of the same license
 file, a post-pass in pilgrim can replace the identical ones with hardlinks
 to each other, using their SHA1sums or MD5sums as an easy test of
 equality.)

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