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LICENSING Observation -- mongoose RPM for Fedora #159

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
FYI

I've been working the last months to get mongoose packaged and distributed as 
an official Fedora RPM, and I finally got approval from Fedora community.
They have just observed, however, that it would be a good practice having a 
copy of MIT license text distributed in your .tar file (as a COPYING or 
LICENCING file), in order to completely fulfill their licencing policies.

Despite all source code file shipped possesses a header stating its license, 
please consider that comment and ship a license text file within your .tar as 
well.

Further information:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/LicensingGuidelines#License_Text

Thanks in advance, and best regards

Rafael

Original issue reported on code.google.com by raaquini on 22 Jul 2010 at 4:33

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Can LICENSE file be created by the package script instead?

Original comment by valenok on 23 Aug 2010 at 8:42

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Despite it is not mandatory having a license file, it is nice ship it with 
software packages just to advise end-users that are unable to read the source 
code. However, LICENSE must be shipped within a tarball. As a packager, we are 
not allowed to insert license files for tarballs who doesn't have it.

It really would be nice if you could include it, in a next release.

Thanks for your attention.

Original comment by raaquini on 24 Aug 2010 at 8:49

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Sounds Good.
It'll be in from the next release on.

Original comment by valenok on 24 Aug 2010 at 9:05

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Pushed 
http://code.google.com/p/mongoose/source/detail?r=28225ce0567f5366f7f5a519777988
b5c658b328

Original comment by valenok on 6 Sep 2010 at 9:05

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Thanks alot for answering this so promptly.
Unfortunately, your push is newer than the tarball available in featured 
downloads, what makes it downloadable without those license file.
I'll wait for a new release, anyway!

Original comment by raaquini on 9 Sep 2010 at 11:23