#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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Changes (by mako):

 * cc: dgilmore (added)


Comment:

 We discussed this option at some length a few weeks ago. It is my
 understanding that this is hard for a number of reasons. Most importantly,
 Fedora/Red Hat includes licenses as documentation for each RPM but does
 not have a standard location. Sometimes it is called GPL, sometimes
 COPYING, sometimes LICENSE, etc. Unlike Debian, where this is very
 consistent and mandated by policy, determining the license file is not
 easy (or we would have done that instead of this method).

 Instead, Red Hat records license information in metadata. This *is* a
 standard for this and it makes automatically determining the license
 (including "or any later" language) easier than it is in Debian. That is
 where I got the data for moving forward the way I did.

 What we need is for Red Hat to somehow mark license files. I'm happy to
 have this conversation but getting this fix through seems longer term at
 best. Perhaps Dennis Gilmore, who knows this area much better than I, can
 chime in.

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