readline update?

Bernie Innocenti bernie at codewiz.org
Thu Jul 9 09:01:53 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 01:14 +0200, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 12:27 +0200, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> > devtodo-0.1.20-3.fc12
> 
> I maintain this package in Fedora.  Just wrote the author asking for a
> clarification on licensing.

FYI, I got this reply:

-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Alec Thomas <alec at swapoff.org>
To: Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>
Subject: Re: License clarification for devtodo
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 12:02:04 +1000

I haven't looked at the GPLv3 to determine whether I'd actually want
to license devtodo under it, but I'll take a look when I get a chance.
Unfortunately I'm going on holidays for a month, so likely won't be
able to until mid-August or so.

2009/7/9 Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>:
> Hello,
>
> I'm packaging devtodo in Fedora.  We can't link it against readline 6
> because it is GPLv3 and devtodo appears to be GPLv2 only.
>
> Is that right?  If your intention actually was to make devtodo GPLv2 or
> later, could you please release an updated source package with this fact
> explained explicitly?
>
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