On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 11:12 +0000, Jose' Matos wrote:
Hi,
I have packed several R modules. R modules have a description file with a
license field.
Lots of those modules have as license: GPL version 2 or later.
Should this be placed in the spec file as GPL
IMO: This.
or allow the fully license as
described in the DESCRIPTION file?
Do you mean the %description tag? I am opposed
to this.
"License: GPL" should be considered enough to provide an informative
overview over a package's licensing.
While searching for tags used in the License field for Extras I got
this
result:
1 GPL version 2 or newer
1 GPL version 2 or later.
1 GPL version 2 or later
1 GPLv2
IMO, all these above are superfluous and should be changed into
"GPL",
because current "GPL" always implies "GPLv2 or later/newer".
Ralf