On 7/12/07, Luis Villa <luis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[Note that this is not an official position of Red Hat Legal; I am not a lawyer (yet), and I am particularly not your lawyer (yet). Were I speaking as part of Red Hat Legal, I would speak with an @redhat.com address.] On 7/12/07, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > == Brief discussion of GPL v2/v3 and EULA for F8 == > > * Consider adding license version tagging to spec file - push to FESCo > > * Need to raise awareness to examine code coming from upstream during version updates > > * Mostly packaging issues that need to be discussed with legal > > Can you explain this a bit more please? Particularly if you're going to > push it to FESCo. > > 1) Why do we need to examine code coming from upstream updates? (E.g. > only to make sure the license tag spells out the correct version?) Consider a not very hypothetical hypothetical: (the details of the incompatibility are simplified and possibly even incorrect, because I have been at the office *a lot* the past three days, but the basic idea is there) * Samba releases a library which is GPLv3. They are upstream for libsmbclient; it is their prerogative to do this. * Fedora packages and ships this new, GPL v3 libsmbclient. * Fedora rebuilds things which link against libsmbclient, but which are not GPL v3. * Fedora distributes. Voila... a (potential, depending on the details) license violation! Here, all relevant upstreams have done the right thing, and yet Fedora has committed a license violation. So Fedora might wish to put into place review procedures which minimize the risk of this occurring.
BTW, folks might want to take a look at the first question in : http://gplv3.fsf.org/dd3-faq to get a sense of GPL v3/v2 compatibility issues. I'm not completely sure I personally agree with every square of the chart, but it at least gives a good overview of where the likely problems are. Luis _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
