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Bug 337997

Summary:	Start using shared licenses
Product:	[Tools] Linux Tools	Reporter:	Alexander Kurtakov <akurtakov>
Component:	Project	Assignee:	Roland Grunberg <rgrunber>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	overholt
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	2.1
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:

Description Alexander Kurtakov

2011-02-23 12:00:50 EST

The feature is described in this blogpost http://relengofthenerds.blogspot.com/2011/01/implementing-shared-licenses-with-37m5.html . 
It would rock if we don't have to take care of the licenses but this will be a problem for linux distributions because currently source tarballs are created from svn tags which would not include license file anymore with this feature. 
Ideally source tarballs should be generated at build time with the proper licensing info in it without having to keep it in scm.

Comment 1 Alexander Kurtakov

2012-02-23 14:04:11 EST

Tycho supports shared licenses now .

Comment 2 Andrew Overholt

2012-02-23 15:45:01 EST

Is it still a problem for Linux distributions?

Comment 3 Alexander Kurtakov

2012-02-24 06:44:28 EST

Well, I wouldn't call it a problem as long as everything has a proper license header. It's more of an inconvenience due to e.g Fedora requesting to ship the license file as %doc which wouldn't be in the source tarball. Though it would be in the final produced rpm.
I'll give this a shot.

Comment 4 Alexander Kurtakov

2013-08-20 07:45:03 EDT

Roland, we already did that, right?

Comment 5 Roland Grunberg

2013-08-20 09:51:51 EDT

Yes, this was done in https://git.eclipse.org/r/14014/ . Marking as CLOSED (FIXED).