On Sat, Jul 25, 2026 at 12:36 PM Mattia Verga via legal <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is perhaps a silly question... am I right when I say that license text > files distributed in packages should reflect just the code used in the final > binary (like the License: tag)? > > My question comes from a ticket [1] I raised against Rawtherapee upstream. As > I recently noticed, in the upcoming next version Rawtherapee started to > install license files for several things: code used in the project, code > optionally used in the final output (such as bundled libraries that we don't > use in Fedora as we use system's libraries), but also external libraries > which Rawtherapee links to and doesn't bundle at all (I see, for example, > gtkmm license text file). > > If upstream doesn't fix that before the final 5.13 release, I plan to > manually remove license that doesn't pertain to Fedora distributed binaries. > Is that right? > > Thanks, > Mattia > > [1] https://github.com/RawTherapee/RawTherapee/issues/7718
Not a silly question but I'm not sure I totally understand it based on a very quick look at the linked issue. The source code of the package as distributed ultimately by Fedora probably should not have any of the upstream license files in that licenses/ directory removed, I assume you are not suggesting that (that would sound like Fedora maintaining a sort of fork of the upstream project with some of those files removed). So I'm guessing you must be talking about what license files are bundled with the binary package and installed in /usr/share/licenses ? Being selective about what license files get installed is already standard though problematically documented Fedora packaging practice, so this seems okay assuming you're sufficiently careful about what you decide to "remove" (I'm confused though about what you mean by "remove" because if my understanding is correct you are not removing anything, rather you are choosing not to *add* certain license files). This is a reminder that the information at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/LicensingGuidelines/ still needs to be overhauled somehow. Richard -- _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] 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/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
