Hi,
Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> writes:
On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 02:33:49PM -0500, Richard Fontana wrote:
> > For reference:
https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/411
>
> I assume that the comments there about hardlinking are still accurate.
That we could do it but aren't? Yes.
> A long time ago I suggested that Fedora consider adopting what I
> understand the Debian convention to be, which is to have a single copy
> of several widely used license files in a directory called
> /usr/share/common-licenses, referenced as needed from a per-package
> debian/copyright file. From a license compliance standpoint the Debian
> approach has some merit.
Perhaps the SPDX effort provides a good point to look at that idea again.
Why are we not using the SPDX license identifiers in our spec files,
this would simplify deduplicating licenses tremendously?