FS/OSS license: not quite enough of a requirement

[Dennis Gilmore]

Once upon a time Wednesday 09 May 2007, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 19:41 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > Perhaps it would make sense to also add a note explaining that Fedora
> > is committed to not distributing [non-firmware] software in such a way
> > that the software wouldn't abide by these definitions, from the point
> > of view of the recipients.  E.g. software licensed under a Free
> > Software license but without corresponding sources.  If the reader
> > finds deviations s/he should report them.
>
> Or perhaps, more simply, that all software [non-firmware] in Fedora must
> include source code.
I think its implicit that it has the source code. another requirement is that  
everything needs to be built on our buildsystem.    So if they dont release 
source we cant build and its not acceptable.  Thats the reason we pulled 
XaraLX from the distro   they had a binary library 

Dennis

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