[Fedora-legal-list] eclipse and php require GPLV2+

Julius Davies juliusdavies at gmail.com
Wed Nov 11 09:03:43 UTC 2009


Thanks, Spot,

>>
>> I was looking at the some of the dependencies generated by AutoReqProv
>> in the RPMS in Fedora 11 and I noticed the following:
>>
>>
>> eclipse-swt (epl)
>> requires: libxpcom.so
>> provided-by: nspluginwrapper (gplv2+)
>
> This is actually linked to xulrunner, which is "MPLv1.1 or GPLv2+ or
> LGPLv2+".
>

Thanks so much for this clarification!  I see now where I made a mistake.  Oops.


>> php-cli (php)
>> requires: libreadline.so
>> provided-by: readline (gplv2+)
>
> This looks to be a genuine issue. I'm looking into it. (Readline is now
> GPLv3+, but I'm not sure it makes a difference.)
>
> ~spot
>



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