Packit is failing because COPYING doesn't exist anymore

[osandov]

b156d98 moved drgn's main license file from COPYING to LICENSES a la FSFE REUSE. (Subsequent commits added the other licenses used in the repository, and then 87b7292 changed the main license.) This is making RPM builds fail at %license COPYING. See https://dashboard.packit.dev/results/copr-builds/511047 for an example.

@davide125, @michel-slm, what's the best way to fix this? Should I bring back COPYING as a symlink to LICENSES/LGPL-2.1-or-later.txt? Should the rpmspec copy the whole LICENSES directory instead?

[davide125]

Both. We need to update the spec to include the new licenses, and update the license tag accordingly. But you should also add back COPYING (as that's what github uses to infer the project license, among other things) -- I'd probably put a short blurb in it summarizing the project license and pointing folks to the stuff in LICENSES for details.

[osandov]

I'd probably put a short blurb in it summarizing the project license and pointing folks to the stuff in LICENSES for details.

Ah, it looks like that's what Linux has: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/COPYING. I'll add that in a sec.

[osandov]

Ok, added it back. That should fix Packit, but as you pointed out, the RPM spec still needs updating. I can do that when I get back from PTO if you don't get to it before then.

[michel-slm]

libbpf has something more minimal where COPYING is just an SPDX license string, that works too

[osandov]

Just cut a release and put up a PR to update the spec: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-drgn/pull-request/3