hplip: hp-toolbox advertising?
Simo Sorce
ssorce at redhat.com
Wed Mar 28 16:00:43 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 20:39 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> It is mere aggregation since the other parts do not contain or derive
> from any software licensed under the GPL. If I licensed my software
> under say MIT X11 license then there is simply no way another license
> can automatically relicense my software under any different license.
> That simply does not work under copyright law. You can however produce a
> derivative work if both components are under compatible licenses. The
> act of putting distinct packages in the same srpm creates no such
> derivative work. See if you can find any relatively well known sources
> agreeing with you. IMO this is not a gray area that requires any court
> case to clarify.
+1
> Rahul
>
> PS: We really really should not be playing lawyers here. If you have a
> actual case that would affect Fedora and there is no general consensus
> we can ask the real lawyers. Otherwise do take this discussion off
> fedora-devel.
+10
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