On Sun, 2019-05-19 at 17:15 +0200, Felix Schwarz wrote:
I have a question regarding license tags in spec files for software under multiple licenses (bundled libraries):
- The main software is licensed under a 3-clause BSD.
- The software bundles a library under ASL 2 in subfolder /foo
As far as I know the correct license tag for the Fedora package is License: BSD and ASL 2.0
If I do rm -rf <...>/foo in %prep the ASL-licensed code is never executed, compiled and not present in the final binary. Can I change the license tag to "BSD" in that case?
Based on your example, yes:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/LicensingGuideline...
"The License: field refers to the licenses of the contents of the *binary* rpm."
(I could also clean the source code before importing it for Fedora but I like using unmodified upstream archives.)
That is only necessary when the sources contain legally encumbered code, which doesn't sound like the case here.