RE: Now a licensing question

[Phillip Neiswanger <pneiswan evolving com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike A. Harris [mailto:mharris@meteng.on.ca]
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 4:36 AM
To: 'rpm-list@redhat.com'
Subject: Re: Now a licensing question

> What I see happening is:
>
> On HP box:
>
> 1) Build your program "foo" however.
> 2) Package the Linux portion of "foo" with RPM
> 3) Distribute the Linux RPM packages of "foo"
>
> Just because RPM itself is GPL doesn't mean the packages that it
> produces have to be.  They are subject to the licensing of the
> code therein, and if it is your code, then it is your license.

Thanks Mike.  You have cleared up a lot, but just to beat a dead horse the
actual situation is more like the following.

1) Build our program on our HP boxes, including a rpm executable.
2) Install our programs and rpm on a clients machine.  During installation
the included rpm program is used to create the rpm package destine for the
clients Linux box.
3) Install the rpm package created on the clients HP box on the Linux box.
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phil