GPL and LGPL not acceptable for Fedora!

Michael Schwendt bugs.michael at gmx.net
Thu Aug 16 09:31:30 UTC 2007


On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:10:45 +0200, Joel Andres Granados wrote:

> 
> > NOTE: Don't trust COPYING. Look at the source code itself.
> >
> > Please, please, please do this. Take a minute and go through your
> > packages and correct the specs so that they are using the new License
> > tagging schema.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > ~spot

> Just to be clear, process here is:
> 1. go through the packages in FC-5, FC-6, FC-7 and devel, correct as 
> indicated.
> 2. build if changed.
> 
> right?

Not right. FC-5 has reached end-of-life long ago, so save yourself the
commits to a dead branch. And don't rebuild packages outside "devel" just
for these licence clarifications. In the non-"devel" branches, feel free to
commit the spec changes, but don't rebuild.




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