[Fedora-packaging] Licensing issue in mantis

Gianluca Sforna giallu at gmail.com
Fri Mar 30 15:21:37 UTC 2007


On 3/30/07, Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Ok. I assume this is to be done also upstream, that is, they can not
> > continue shipping it in the same tarball?
>
> While this is something that we would like to encourage upstream to do
> (either relicense it without the commercial use restriction or pull the
> code out entirely), it is not required. You only need to do this to meet
> Fedora requirements.

Well. They can not relicense it because it's not under their
copyright, but it comes from a 3rd party project
(http://php-flp.sourceforge.net/); I'll ask them to try replacing it
with something providing the same functionality (it's a rss feed
generator php class)

thanks for your help




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