Licensing guidelines changes

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Thu Aug 2 20:50:23 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 22:47 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> You wrote, you kept "Redistributable, no modification permitted" the
> same to 
> avoid churn, the why not also keep "zlib/libpng License" as
> "zlib/libpng 
> License" to avoid churn? It isn't all that important since we will
> need a mass 
> rebuild anyways, but I still wonder. 

Because I want to keep the "short names" short and simple. There wasn't
any shorter/simpler way to handle the firmware license text (plus, it
has the unique distinction of being blessed by and given to us from the
Fedora Board). :)

~spot




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