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 2006-08-17 14:52:21 

  


  

    

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From: Jeff Johnson <gmail.com">n3npq.jbjgmail.com>
Date: August 17, 2006 10:38:56 AM EDT
To: Peter Bowen <novell.com">pzbnovell.com>
Subject: Re: [Rpm-devel] Re: recent rpm-4.4.7-0.x src.rpms

 

On Aug 17, 2006, at 10:32 AM, Peter Bowen wrote:

 
Jeff,

With all due respect, rpm is mostly GPL licensed, except for 3rd party
code and code in the lib subdirectory. This is very explicitly covered
in the COPYING file.

 

I will remove.

 
As you well know, there are multiple authors of rpm, and any change to
the license would require their consent.

 

So litigate. The intent in rpm has *ALWAYS* been LGPL, which is why
beecrypt rather than gcrypt had to be used for signature verification
when implemented.

But as I said, there's enough licenses in rpm to keep everyone happy forever.

Meanwhile, rpm development work mostly takes place outside of rpm these
days, in case you haven't noticed.

I'm not your, SuSE's, RedHat's or anyone else's bitch. Fork you!

73 de Jeff

 


  

  
  
   
     
    

  

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     2006-08-17 16:03:16
  


  

    
On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 10:52 -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> 
> 
> B
> > On Aug 17, 2006, at 10:32 AM, Peter Bowen wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > Jeff,
> > > 
> > > 
> > > With all due respect, rpm is mostly GPL
licensed, except for 3rd
> > > party
> > > code and code in the lib subdirectory. This
is very explicitly
> > > covered
> > > in the COPYING file.
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > I will remove.
> > 


Just to make sure I'm clear on this. Are you saying you're
removing the
COPYING file from the rpm sources?

I got confused with all the quotes of quotes of messages and
I wanted to
make sure I understand what's going on here.

thanks,
-sv



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On Aug 17, 2006, at 12:03 PM, seth vidal wrote:

>
>
> Just to make sure I'm clear on this. Are you saying
you're removing  
> the
> COPYING file from the rpm sources?
>

Yes, if necessary to clarify that the intent with rpm
sources has  
always been LGPL,
then COPYING needs to be removed, and replaced with
COPYING.LIBS. Duh.

> I got confused with all the quotes of quotes of
messages and I  
> wanted to
> make sure I understand what's going on here.
>

Y-E-S. Got it?

> thanks,

Yer quite welcome.

73 de Jeff
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