Dne 5.5.2017 v 20:49 Richard Fontana napsal(a):
On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 02:28:34PM -0400, Randy Barlow wrote:
> I liked Miro's suggestion of hardlinking the licenses, but it's
> important to sure they are actually identical with checksums (i.e.,
> don't just use the License field because what if the upstream project
> subtly adjusted the license file?)
Right, it would be necessary for someone maintaining a package to
verify that what looks like a common license actually matches the
reference copy. (I don't know if Debian does this.) In some cases,
non-identical files could be determined nonetheless to match according
to some criteria. As an example, the GitHub 'choose-a-license' feature
seems to be resulting in a class of noncanonical common license texts
that differ from the real authentic copy only in nonsubstantive ways
(e.g. whitespace).
And copyright holder typically on the top of MIT ...
I would love to see some package with the canonical licenses as a start.
That would be so much better source of official Fedora licenses then the
current wiki, assuming they are machine readable ...
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