Bug 1319373 - curl does not include license file
Summary: curl does not include license file
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: curl
Version: 22
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kamil Dudka
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-03-19 02:00 UTC by Richard Fontana
Modified: 2016-03-24 09:25 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-03-24 09:25:49 UTC
Type: Bug


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Description Richard Fontana 2016-03-19 02:00:27 UTC
Description of problem:

curl does not include the license file (COPYING)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

7.40.0

How reproducible:

Look for a license file in /usr/share/doc or /usr/share/licenses. The upstream source code has a top-level file called COPYING containing the license information.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. cat /usr/share/licenses/curl
2. ls /usr/share/doc/curl|grep COPYING
3.

Actual results:

[ref@monk ~]$ ls /usr/share/licenses/curl
ls: cannot access /usr/share/licenses/curl: No such file or directory

[ref@monk ~]$ ls /usr/share/doc/curl|grep COPYING
[ref@monk ~]$ 

Expected results:

[ref@monk ~]$ ls /usr/share/licenses/curl
COPYING

[ref@monk ~]$ ls /usr/share/doc/curl|grep COPYING
COPYING

I have found the same error in curl 7.43.0 on Fedora 23

Comment 1 Kamil Dudka 2016-03-19 06:21:56 UTC
curl requires libcurl, which installs the COPYING file.  This ensures that curl cannot be installed without installing the CYPYING file first.


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