On 08/31/2009 12:01 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Kalev Lember wrote:
> The license of native gcc package has changed from:
> GPLv3+ and GPLv2+ with exceptions
> to:
> GPLv3+, GPLv3+ with exceptions and GPLv2+ with exceptions
>
> I have applied the license change to my copy mingw32-gcc spec file as
> well, although I should point out that rpmlint thinks the license is
> not valid:
> W: invalid-license GPLv3+, GPLv3+ with exceptions
This should be "GPLv3+ and GPLv3+ with exceptions and GPLv2+ with
exceptions". The point here is not to write pretty English, but to be 100%
unambiguous and automatically parsable. If you replace that comma with
"and", rpmlint will no longer complain.
Yes, that's what I also think. I mailed Jakub Jelinek (native gcc's
maintainer) a week ago and suggested that the license tag should read
"GPLv3+ and GPLv3+ with exceptions and GPLv2+ with exceptions", but it
seems he wasn't at office last week. Pinged again today.
Even if the license tag is slightly wrong, I think it should match the
one in the native package and the change to license should propagate
from the native gcc to mingw32-gcc.
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Kalev Lember