On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:29:57 -0800 Julius Davies <juliusdavies@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Maybe the overall "master" copyright license for the Fedora > compilation causes every single GPL+ compatible file inside Fedora to > be licensed as GPL+ ? So every LGPL, BSD, MIT file which *can* be > relicensed in this way *is" even if such a relicensing is unnecessary > for license compliance? > > Take a look at this file on your Fedora > CDROM: > > ftp://ftp.nrc.ca/pub/systems/linux/redhat/fedora/linux/releases/12/Everything/i386/os/GPL > ----------- > ***************************************************************************** > The following copyright applies to the Fedora compilation and any > portions of Fedora it does not conflict with. Whenever this > policy does conflict with the copyright of any individual portion of > Fedora, it does not apply. > > ***************************************************************************** > GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE > Version 2, June 1991 > > [Rest of file is verbatim copy of GPLv2 license.] > ----------- I haven't been following this thread closely, but this reference to GPLv2 is a licensing bug - an erroneous holdover from the RHL era, and should not have been included. I can say categorically that any global copyright license for the Fedora compilation is intended to have no effect on the licensing of Fedora packages. - RF -- Richard E. Fontana Open Source Licensing and Patent Counsel Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ Fedora-legal-list mailing list Fedora-legal-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legal-list