Fedora Board Recap 2007-JUL-10
Alexandre Oliva
aoliva at redhat.com
Fri Jul 13 08:14:48 UTC 2007
On Jul 12, 2007, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Whether it is worth the effort to separate the license tags in RPM
> between GPLv2 and GPLv3 licensed software from the legal perspective.
Suggestions to avoid trouble: automate as much checking as possible.
New top-of-tree and new builds with License: GPL should be flagged and
the maintainer should be asked to replace that with one of GPLv2,
GPLv3, GPLv2+, GPLv3+, and perhaps other combinations thereof.
Likewise for LGPL.
New builds that change licensing terms should check any library
dependencies for license incompatibility. E.g., a GPLv2 program must
not depend on a GPLv3+ or LGPLv3+ library, and a GPLv3+ program must
not depend on a GPLv2 library. (not sure about GPLv3+ / LGPLv2
compatibility, I haven't thought much about it, and IANAL :-)
New builds containing libraries should check any dependent packages
for license incompatibility similarly.
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Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/
Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
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