On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 09:23 +0100, Tim Jackson wrote:
Christopher Stone wrote:
> This has been brought up in discussions before:
>
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2006-March/msg00004.html
> The bottom line is that Header tags SHOULD not be used to
determine the
> license.
Is it not redundant then?
IMO, the License:-tag should be considered to be a short informative
abbreviated description for the actual licensing, and not to be
considered a legally binding description.
> We want to encourage people to read the ACTUAL license itself,
not our
> header tags.
Things in practice are much more complicated. Developers wanting to use
a package for development will have to dive into the source code in any
case. For normal Fedora users, the License-tag, a "LICENSE" file and the
source files are equally uninteresting.
Ralf