PR#1194: Update guidelines for Rust licensing - packaging-committee

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#1194 Update guidelines for Rust licensing

Merged 2 years ago by tibbs. Opened 2 years ago by jlovejoy.

Unknown source jl-rust into master

fix link to license field guideline

Jilayne Lovejoy • 2 years ago

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Update guidelines for Rust licensing

Jilayne Lovejoy • 2 years ago

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guidelines/modules/ROOT/pages/Rust.adoc

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		`@@ -233,16 +233,8 @@`

		`== License for binary packages`

		`- Since Rust applications are statically linked and contain code from all their dependencies,`
		`- the effective license for the subpackage containing the built binary`
		`- must be calculated from the individual licenses of all dependencies.`
		`-`
		- The `+rust2rpm+` project provides a https://pagure.io/fedora-rust/rust2rpm/blob/main/f/tools/fedora-helper.py[helper script]
		`- that can be used to obtain a list of Licenses of all real crate dependencies,`
		`- excluding dependencies that are only required at build-time or for running tests.`
		`-`
		- Both the list of individual licenses and the `License` tag with the effective license
		`- MUST be included in the subpackage that contains the statically linked binary.`
		`+ See https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/license-field.adoc[License: field in Spec file] guidance specific to Rust.`
		`+`

		`== Miscellaneous`

jlovejoy commented 2 years ago

Updating to a link to new License: field pages in Fedora docs

relates to #1142

Signed-off-by: Jilayne Lovejoy

decathorpe commented 2 years ago

Note that the mentioned "helper script" is unmaintained and should no longer be used, so I'd rather drop that paragraph entirely until we have a new solution.

decathorpe commented 2 years ago

I'm also unsure whether it's actually worth mentioning Rust specifically. It's just like all other ecosystems with statically linked binaries, and the paragraph that's in the Rust Packaging Guidelines is basically just a reminder of that. I'd rather have it point to a generic section of the legal docs concerning statically linked programs, since Rust isn't special here.

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