GPL and LGPL not acceptable for Fedora!

Simo Sorce ssorce at redhat.com
Thu Aug 16 15:08:06 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 10:58 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 10:59 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:

> > /me imagines an angry author shouting at C violation by Fedora because
> > we mark something GPL+ instead of GPLv2+ or GPLv3+
> 
> Agreed. Asking upstream is the best way to resolve that case.
> 
> However, we're not liable for any mistaken tagging of the License in our
> package, because the License: tag isn't legally binding.

Yeah in fact I said shouting not taking legal action :-)

Simo.




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