From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071023 Fedora/2.0.0.8-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.8 Description of problem: is it possible to check via the rpm-license-tag and the package-dependencies if there are license incompatibilities? eg. GPLv3+ vs. GPLv2only i am not sure if all %{license} are proper filed, some licenses are listed as "distributable, freeware, public domain, gpl, lgpl, ..." instead the correct version. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. repoquery -a --qf "%{name} -- %{license}\n" Actual Results: Expected Results: # rpm -q --checklicensecomp packageA packagB license conflict GPLv3+ GPLv2only Additional info: the license tag should be filed correctly in the near future. more GPLv3+ http://gplv3.fsf.org/rms_gplv3_launch_transcript
*** Bug 353431 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
On rpm level, the license is just an arbitrary string. Distributions can of course mandate certain values by policy, but that's outside rpm scope. Not to mention maintaining a license-compatibility matrix and attempting to check for license compatibility - that's a job for lawyers, not rpm. For distro-level license sanity checking helper tool, you'll be far better off looking at licenses from repository metadata.