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recent rpm-4.4.7-0.x src.rpms
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2006-08-17 14:19:32
On 8/17/06, Rex Dieter <rdietermath.unl.edu> wrote:
> Jeff Johnson wrote:
>
>
> > Yep. rpm-4.4.7-0.14 and later has db-4.5.x within,
and I'm under NDA.
>
> Naughty, doesn't the GPL require sources to be made
available, especially if
> I ask pretty please? (:
>

Naughty? In fact,GPL code is toxic for rpm purposes, rpm
(and me) live on the
LGPL lunatic fringe of FLOSS and cannot use *ANY* GPL code.

But there's enough licenses applied to rpm that any lawyer
can
probably make a living litigating. <shrug> I dinna do
it, my rpm fork
is LGPL.

> > Build the -r rpm-4_4 branch from cvs.rpm.org
should work just fine
> > with db-4.4.20.
> >

w0w! The code is available! Even to trolls!

73 de Jeff
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