Fedora Project launches Pre-Extras

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Dec 16 21:38:08 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 22:32 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
> Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 21:12:32 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>I noticed xv is also included, does that mean that it is ok to package 
> >>not 100% oss software, I'm especially thinking about free (as in 
> >>beer)/gratis, with sourcecode, but not for commercial use, without any 
> >>further redistribution limitations.
> > 
> > 
> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-commits/2004-December/msg00084.html
> > 
> 
> Ah,
> 
> Thanks for the heads up, and what does this mean for other non 100% oss 
> software not a chance or does it depend on the wording of the license, 
> or .... ?
> 
> To bad xv will be removed again, xv is a great tool and I think many 
> people would like it being available through yum.
> 

It's been removed now.

-sv





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