[Bug 254056] Review Request: e16 - The Enlightenment window manager, DR16

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Summary: Review Request: e16 -  The Enlightenment window manager, DR16


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=254056


tcallawa at redhat.com changed:

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------- Additional Comments From tcallawa at redhat.com  2008-03-23 10:13 EST -------
OK, e16 license came back as free but GPL-incompatible (v2 and v3), due to the
fact that notices and an acknowledgement must appear in "marketing and publicity
materials", which puts it in the BSD-advertising-clause category.

Since the epp bits compile into their own, independent binary, and there is no
source code linking or sharing, this is fine to distribute as is. Please use:

License: BSD with advertising and GPLv2+

It is worth noting that some of the e16 upstream components have fixed this
problem in their license:

(http://www.enlightenment.org/viewvc/misc/geist/COPYING?r1=1.2&r2=1.3&pathrev=HEAD&view=patch)

I would strongly suggest reaching out to the copyright holders everytime we see
this license and asking them if they're willing to make the same license
changes. While its not a problem for this specific package, it could easily make
other works which have GPL and e16 code linked together, totally undistributable
by Fedora (or anyone, really).

Lifting FE-Legal.

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