Bug 836573

Summary: package kernel-desktop does not provide COPYING
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 13.1 Reporter: Christopher Yeleighton <giecrilj>
Component: BasesystemAssignee: E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Final   
Target Milestone: Final   
Hardware: x86-64   
OS: openSUSE 13.1   
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Description Christopher Yeleighton 2013-08-25 18:29:23 UTC 
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The package kernel-desktop is licensed under the terms of GNU Public
License.  The license requires that the text of the license should be bundled
with binary packages.  Currently the package violates this requirement, thereby
invalidating the license, and therefore exposes the customers to legal risk.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
  1. { rpm -qi kernel-desktop; }
  2. { rpm -qd kernel-desktop; }

Actual Results:  
  1. License     : GPL-2.0
  2. 

Expected Results:  
  2. /usr/share/doc/packages/kernel-desktop/COPYING
Comment 1 Michal Marek 2013-11-11 09:29:10 UTC 
The kernel binary packages only contain the kernel image, kernel modules and firmware files, all in versioned paths to allow parallel installation of multiple versions. The license file is in the kernel-source package. I'm not aware of any legal risk.