NOTE: Please publicize any license changes to your packages
Jima
jima at beer.tclug.org
Wed Jul 25 15:46:28 UTC 2007
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 02:55:39PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>> I respectfuly disagree - for every project that uses a mix of licenses
>> the licensing split is motivated either by different code origin or by
>> a careful reflexion on what part can be re-used in what context. In
>> both cases bundling everything in a single package or subackage is not
>> doing anyone any favour.
>
> Additionally, if the -devel packages were split on license boundaries,
> then perhaps the buildsystem could flag attempts to link to
> incompatibly-licensed libararies.
Oooh. While that would still require the License tags to be correct,
that seems like a really clever idea to me.
Jima
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