On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 12:49 PM Mattia Verga <mattia.ve...@proton.me> wrote: > > Does the license files of an installed foo package need to reside under > /usr/share/licenses/foo/ or can they reside anywhere and the packager just > needs to ensure they're installed? > > The question comes out from a review of a python package [1]: since python > package already installs license files properly marked as such into the > dist-info dir of the package, do we have to install them using the %license > tag also? I would expect them to be under /usr/share/licenses but there's > nothing in the packaging guidelines about this.
FWIW I don't see this as a Fedora legal issue - assuming a particular license file should be installed somewhere in the file system as a legal matter (or otherwise), where that should be is a matter of Fedora packaging convention. Richard _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to legal-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue