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been removed from the rpm spec language. It has been replaced with "License". One rpm spec file result is: $ rpmbuild -ta jove4.16.0.65.tgz error: Legacy syntax is unsupported: copyright error: line 35: Unknown tag: Copyright: Copyright (C) 1986-2002 by Jonathan Payne, freely redistributable This is the first I've heard that this tag was deprecated. Surely it would be better to issue a warning for a release cycle before completely rejecting it. This is unlikely to take more code since "Copyright" is still being recognized enough to note that it is "Legacy syntax". The "Copyright" tag has been deprecated for about 5 years. It was poorly named initially and should have been named "License" from the very start. rpm added "License" as a tag to fix this problem, and made "Copyright" an alias for compatibility. 5 or so years of compatibility is quite a long time. Think about it... Does this sound correct: Copyright: Mike A Harris License: GPL Or does this sound correct: Copyright: GPL The latter is claiming that the GPL (whatever that is in this context) is the copyright owner. That doesn't make any sense. If we assume "GPL" means "GNU General Public License" for this example, what the above line is saying is that the actual GPL license text is the copyright owner. The GPL document is a license contract. The owner of the code is the copyright owner, not the license, so the ancient rpm usage of "Copyright:
by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] On Sat, 14 May 2005 12:40:36 -0400 (EDT), D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > Apparently the "Copyright" tag has been removed from the rpm spec > language. https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-beta-list/2005-May/msg00963.html It has been replaced with "License". One result is: > > $ rpmbuild -ta jove4.16.0.65.tgz > error: Legacy syntax is unsupported: copyright > error: line 35: Unknown tag: Copyright: Copyright (C) 1986-2002 by Jonathan Payne, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2005-May/037097.html freely redistributable > > This is the first I've heard that this tag was deprecated. Surely it > would be better to issue a warning for a release cycle before > completely rejecting it. The tag is deprecated for a long time already. You could have used the "License:" tag much (!) earlier already. -- Fedora Core release Rawhide (Rawhide) - Linux 2.6.11-1.1303_FC4 loadavg: 1.76 2.11 1.96 Previous message: rpmbuild rejects "Copyright:" in .spec Next message: rpmbuild rejects "Copyright:" in .spec Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] More information about the test mailing list
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