Stale Fedora Hosted Projects (revisited)

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Nigel Jones wrote:
>> On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 01:59 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>>> Nigel Jones wrote:
>>>> IIRC the GPL at least requires that the code be kept for 3 years (hence
>>>> why we can't clean the look-a-side cache from memory).
>>>>
>>> AFAIK that only goes to /distribution/ under GPLv2 section 3b, not the 
>>> "upstream" SCM, but then again I'm not sure and it may be worthwhile 
>>> looking into the requirements of the Licenses of the software in these SCMs.
>> Distribution is very loose in my terms.
>>
>> Technically by distributing the source code, we are errr acting as a
>> distribution point.  IANAL but that's my view.
> 
> Perhaps.  But the GPLv2 portion that has the three year clause deals
> with distributing binaries.  Upstream SCM would be releasing source, so
> that doesn't apply.  If the upstream on fedorahosted was releasing
> binary tarballs then it might be a little greyer.  Although one would
> hope they were releasing both binary tarballs and source tarballs.  Then
> it would fall under a different clause with no timeframe.
> 

Given that we alone can think of a couple of arguments for or against 
GPL distribution for 3 years or not, and there's other licenses as well, 
this might be more appropriately handled by the legally literate people 
(no offense to you, I just know I certainly am not)

-Jeroen