multiple sub-programs, multiple licenses, one package?

Tom 'spot' Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Thu Aug 25 21:39:56 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 18:25 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:10:21 -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> 
> 
> > > > The other scenario is for large packages. If you've got a LOT of content
> > > > with varying licenses, then you should really think about splitting it
> > > > into subpackages, with their own License: setting.
> > > 
> > > I truely hope you are kidding.
> > 
> > Not really. elfutils does this successfully.
> 
> Aha. Where exactly? All I see is a split because of an optional library:
> 
> $ ls elf*
> elfutils-0.108-1.i386.rpm        elfutils-libelf-0.108-1.i386.rpm
> elfutils-devel-0.108-1.i386.rpm  elfutils-libelf-devel-0.108-1.i386.rpm

Hrm. At one point libelf/libelf-devel had GPL licenses. Which was
correct. OSL is not.

~spot
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