On 18.09.2007 19:44, Enrico Scholz wrote: > "Tom \"spot\" Callaway" <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >>> It should be enough to remove this license text (which is allowed since >>> 2000) to make it GPL compatible. Or, to make it legally perfect, remove >>> the old code, take recent version of RFC 1321, copy reference code from >>> it and remove the license text. >> Only RSA can remove the license text, > no; everybody can remove it because you can do everything what you want > to do with the code since 2000. > >> The license text in the code itself trumps all. > Why? The text was written 1992 which was before the dual licensing to > public domain in 2000. > [...] I like to let you two fight this out. But is there a real reasons to continue this in private? I'd say it's time to move it to fedora-devel, where everyone can participate. Maybe someone comes up with a explanation we all don't know about yet? Did the debian guys never discuss this earlier? On 18.09.2007 15:31, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 09:02 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> > My package mail-notification is GPL and uses it. :-/ >> > But why are "*we* going to need to replace it"? Is the issue that urgent >> > so there is not even 24 or 72 hours to talk to upstream to make them >> > aware of the issue first? Then maybe upstream can fix it quickly once >> > and for all and for all distributions? Or are we not allowed to talk >> > about this in public bug trackers? > No, the issue is not that urgent. Thx for clarifying. It sounded a bit to me like this had to happen fast and silent. > We (Fedora) need to take action to remedy this. Sure and np. > This could be in the form of writing a patch and submitting > it upstream for review, or simply pointing to upstream and having them > resolve it, then taking in the same changes in Fedora. Sure -- but my upstream in this case is a bit problematic in general already, thus I'd like to safe your and my time and discuss it first with upstream to agree on a proper solution before working one out and throwing it away. > [...] Cu knurd _______________________________________________ Fedora-legal-list mailing list Fedora-legal-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legal-list
