[Bug 391] Review request: python-vlc - VLC Media Player binding for Python

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http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391





--- Comment #14 from Orcan Ogetbil <oget.fedora at gmail.com>  2009-06-05 04:38:07 ---
(In reply to comment #13)
> 
> I don't like at all this dirty hack :
> echo "include COPYING" >> MANIFEST.in
> 
> Packager including a license is totally wrong, you don't have right to do that.
> If you want a source archive to bundle a license, you can send a patch upstream
> asking to do that. But you are not allowed to do that yourself.
> 

I totally agree with you on this. However, we had an almost identical situation
with the reviews of globus packages, where there was a LICENSE file in the root
of the tree and globus-* packages are made from the subbranches.

I defended to *not* include the license file but it was decided to manually
copy the LICENSE file (which is ASLv2) to each subbranch. For instance, see the
source extraction guide in
   http://www.grid.tsl.uu.se/repos/globus/info/new/globus-ftp-control.spec
from
   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=478922

The decision was made in the FPC mailing list
   https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2009-April/msg00042.html


I used
   echo "include COPYING" >> MANIFEST.in
for consistency with that decision. I would gladly remove it if there was no
such decision.

What do you say about this?


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