* Mark Wielaard [19/02/2024 18:24] :
So at some point RPM/Fedora adopted the %license directive.
This was nearly a decade ago, in the F21/F22 era.
https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/411
Which basically meant that we would always include the full declared
license of the project.
This assumes the upstream tarball contains a file with the text of the
license it is under.
To the best of my knowledge, a packager should not use %license if
this is not the case and no one should assume a package contains it.
Do you happen to know why after this the
License field was (also) kept?
I believe the only thing discussed at the time was not implementing
%license, due to it being seen as redundant to License.
Emmanuel