rsync license change

Simo Sorce ssorce at redhat.com
Wed Oct 10 22:27:38 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 18:07 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> Rsync has changed it's license from GPLv2+ to GPLv3+
> The license change affects version 3.0.0 (still a pre-release now).
> In F-8 we will still have 2.6.9 so the change affects F-9

Btw,
the rsync package provides just one binary and no libraries so there is
no license dependency problem.
Also the package itself uses just 2 system libraries (libacl, libpopot)
so no licensing problem here either.

Simo.




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