Tom Callaway wrote:
I don't foresee any situation in which a file containing a list of copyright holders that is distinct and separate from the file containing the license text (pause to catch my breath) would be necessary to treat as %license. %doc should be sufficient there.
That said, if you end up in a situation where you (the packager) feels strongly that the upstream separation of copyright holders and license text would somehow cause the license text to be incomplete, feel free to either bring those specifics to this email list, or tag them both as %license and explain it in a comment in the spec file.
Thanks, that answers my second question. Then I'll continue including lists of authors in the same subpackage as the license, but with %doc, unless I come across some really special case.
Björn Persson