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On 12/17/2015 07:30 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 10:53:09AM +0000, Mat Booth wrote:
- add readme file only to %doc 2) add readme file only to
%license 3) add readme to both %doc and %license 4) cut file in two parts
Actually I don't mind options 1, 2 or 3 (all of these options fulfil the legal obligations of the license, right?) -- 4 seems like unnecessary effort for no real gain.
Don't forget the "nodocs" use case, which the separate license tag helps cover. That means 2 or 3 is preferable to 1. My suggestion would be to go with 3 and then to ask upstream to separate it out. Ideally, if they're using a standard license, we can in the future deduplicate identical license files, too, but only if they're just the license alone in a file.
Just to clarify, Option 1 would not in fact be legally acceptable in many cases (because installation with --nodocs could then result in an installation that did not meet license requirements of having the text present on the installed system).
I agree with Matthew's recommendation here.