[LICENSE CHANGE] emelfm2-0.3.5-1 (was Re: NOTE: Please publicize any license changes to your packages)

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Aug 6 16:59:58 UTC 2007


Christoph Wickert (christoph.wickert at nurfuerspam.de) said: 
> Am Donnerstag, den 19.07.2007, 14:45 -0400 schrieb Bill Nottingham: 
> > The Fedora Engineering Steering Committee would like to remind maintainers
> > that a license change in a package is a very serious event - it has as many,
> > if not more, implications for related packages as ABI changes do.
> > 
> > Therefore, if your package changes license, even if it just changes the 
> > license version, it is required that you announce it, whether on this list
> > or fedora-devel-list.
> 
> emelfm2's license changed from GPL v.2 to v.3 in emelfm2 0.3.5. Sorry
> that I didn't announce this earlier, because it's already in rawhide and
> updates-testing.

Doesn't seem to provide any libraries, so it's safe in that regard.

Bill




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