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Bug 337997 - Start using shared licenses
Summary: Start using shared licenses
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Linux Tools
Classification: Tools
Component: Project (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: 2.1   Edit
Assignee: Roland Grunberg CLA
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Reported: 2011-02-23 12:00 EST by Alexander Kurtakov CLA
Modified: 2013-08-20 09:51 EDT (History)
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Description Alexander Kurtakov CLA 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 CLA 2012-02-23 14:04:11 EST 
Tycho supports shared licenses now .
Comment 2 Andrew Overholt CLA 2012-02-23 15:45:01 EST 
Is it still a problem for Linux distributions?
Comment 3 Alexander Kurtakov CLA 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 CLA 2013-08-20 07:45:03 EDT 
Roland, we already did that, right?
Comment 5 Roland Grunberg CLA 2013-08-20 09:51:51 EDT 
Yes, this was done in https://git.eclipse.org/r/14014/ . Marking as CLOSED (FIXED).