Le Dim 4 août 2013 10:44, Till Maas a écrit : > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 07:54:38PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >> >> Le Mar 23 juillet 2013 19:26, T.C. Hollingsworth a écrit : > >> > AFAICS it shouldn't be too hard to script up something so this would >> > as easy as `fixfontmd --copyright "$(head -n3 LICENSE)" --licensedesc >> > "$(cat LICENSE)" --licenseurl "http://example.com/LICENSE"` for >> > packagers. >> > >> > I'd be happy to add a guideline for this and fix up existing packages >> > if this seems amenable. >> >> If you can write a tool that makes it easy to fix opentype licensing >> fields at build time, I'll be delighted to support any guideline change >> that mandated its use. However if you go in this direction please check >> on >> the fonts and openfontlibrary list knowledgeable people agree there are >> no >> wrong side-effect (this will reach debian font packagers at least BTW) > > The guideline should be to ask upstream to fix the meta data. In case of > missing license text (e.g. source code with a GPL header but no copy of > the GPL itself), it is also upstream's task to fix it and the packager's > to ask for it. And if upstream fixes it, the debian font packagers do > not need to replicate Fedora's effort.
This is already the guideline, the problem is what do you do when upstream postpones fixing to "indefinitely later" because licensing stuff is low-prio for them -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
