multiple sub-programs, multiple licenses, one package?

Linus Walleij triad at df.lth.se
Wed Aug 24 20:30:53 UTC 2005


On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Matt Domsch wrote:

> I'm looking to package Debian's signing-party package for Fedora
> Extras (specifically I like caff).  signing-party contains 6 programs,
> each with their own license, either BSD or GPL.  Would Extras policy
> demand I create 6 separate packages for these?

Technically you could explicitly relicense the included copied of 
BSD-licensed code/programs under GPL and get away with tagging all of it 
as GPL.

Linus




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