New Package: x2x

Jack Neely jjneely at pams.ncsu.edu
Tue Jun 21 15:09:52 UTC 2005


On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 07:33:43PM -0700, Per Bjornsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 13:27 -0400, Jack Neely wrote:
> > > Question: Should we add a GPL Copying file to the package documentation?
> > >         
> > 
> > Is this absolutely nesicary for each and every GPL'd package?  I nope
> > not.  :-)
> 
> Well, I think Toshio got this right, it really should be in there. (Best
> would be if it was in there from upstream; it may be legally OK to fix
> it in the Fedora package but it's a bit clumsy. Again, IANAL so I don't
> want to be quoted as an authority on non-obvious legal stuff...)
> 

I have contacted the current maintainer and asked him if he could
clarify the licensing situation.  Until then I'm going to let this rest.

Jack

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