On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Dave Love <d.love@liverpool.ac.uk> wrote:

Sorry, I don't understand.  What do I need to get _licensedir defined
appropriately so that the conditional makes sense (per the chopped part
of my message)?

 %{!?_licensedir:%global license %doc}
%license COPYING

The redirect to doc works with %doc not %%doc.

Thanks,
Richard