[Rpm-metadata] metadata script and sample

[Mark Hatle]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 00:52, John R. Daily wrote:
> 
>>At (time_t)1065241052 seth vidal wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>Could the following fields be punted into an RPM specific namespace?
>>
>>...
>>
>>>>license
>>>
>>>Do debian packages not list the license?
>>
>>No.
>>
> 
 > Any particular reason? When I used debian in the past the licensing of
 > any particular package seemed to be a very important issue on the
 > mailing lists. I figured licensing would figure prominently in the
 > package metadata.

Every debian package contains a file called "copyright" that includes 
verbose license information for each package.  (While I don't use debian 
my assumption is) If a user wants to see the license information, they 
will need to extract the deb and look at that file.  (I have no idea if 
this is a required file, i.e. third party deb creators need to have such 
a file, but I know all of the debian group packages have it.)

--Mark

>>Debian actually does have a url header, which like origin is rarely used.
>>This one probably should stay.
> 
> 
> ok. cool.
> 
> thanks
> -sv
> 
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