Is referencing the GPL in the package's README enough of a "license"?

Alexandre Oliva aoliva at redhat.com
Thu Mar 15 03:29:49 UTC 2007


On Mar 14, 2007, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 03:08 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On Mar  9, 2007, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:

>> > On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 05:27 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

>> >> it's not enough for you to be allowed to distribute the program
>> >> without a copy of the GPL, because the GPL itself requires it to
>> >> be included.

> What are legal implications on rpm packagers when they add legal
> files?

If it adds something that the copyright holder demanded everyone who
distributes the program to add, you can't get it wrong as far as the
copyright holder is concerned, methinks.  But IANAL ;-)

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