NOTE: Please publicize any license changes to your packages

Sat Jul 21 05:30:02 UTC 2007

On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 14:45 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 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.
Yet more bureaucrazy.

> Please contact FESCo if you have any questions.
So, the new FESCo is going to act as the "Fedora License Police"

Sorry, but I can't deny to consider this development unhelpful.

Ralf