FS#71022 - Include docs and licenses for glibc
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Opened by Makoto Mizukami (makotom) - Wednesday, 26 May 2021, 03:47 GMT
Last edited by freswa (frederik) - Sunday, 20 February 2022, 20:26 GMT
Opened by Makoto Mizukami (makotom) - Wednesday, 26 May 2021, 03:47 GMT
Last edited by freswa (frederik) - Sunday, 20 February 2022, 20:26 GMT
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Description:
glibc package does not contain human-friendly licence terms, such as `COPYING` or `LICENSES`. It looks better to be included, as: 1. the licence terms read `These notices all require that a copy of the notice be included in the accompanying documentation and be distributed with binary distributions of the code`, and 2. other distributors also include those documents along with their binary distributions. E.g., [1]. This sample patch [2] would address this concern - please bear in mind that the reporter is not a lawyer at all, anyhow. ;) Additional info: * package version(s): glibc-2.33-5, lib32-glibc-2.33-5 [1] https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=26051638&fileStart=751&fileOrder=name#filelist [2] https://github.com/makotom/glibc-wsl/blob/main/PKGBUILD-docs.patch |
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Closed by freswa (frederik)
Sunday, 20 February 2022, 20:26 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't implement
Additional comments about closing: LGPL and GPL licenses provided by licenses pkg
Sunday, 20 February 2022, 20:26 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't implement
Additional comments about closing: LGPL and GPL licenses provided by licenses pkg
src/glibc/README
src/glibc/COPYING
src/glibc/NEWS
src/glibc/MAINTAINERS
src/glibc/COPYING.LIB
src/glibc/INSTALL
src/glibc/LICENSES
None of those look like they need installed in a distributed binary package.
I was believing from LICENSES that "any binary distributions of" glibc - including individual pkg.tar.zst's available as https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/glibc/download/ - need to include at least LICENSES (and COPYING* for courtesy), though.
AFAIK this covers us for our obligation to transmit the GPL subset of the terms... for all packages in the archives.