Re: PackageUpdater: silently changing license ?!?

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Kenn Thyrsted wrote:
> So...Theoretically i could install a program licensed under GNU GPL
> , and then - if i do not pay attention - end up with the very same
> (updated) program installed under some proprietary license by means
> of the update feature.

Nope.  The license could change, but it must be a free software
license that is acceptable in Fedora.  The list of acceptable licenses
(as well as some explicitly listed unacceptable licenses) is at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing

So, you might find a package changes its license from GPLv2 to GPLv3+.
Or perhaps from GPLv2 to BSD.  But you won't even find a license move
to some proprietary license.  If you do, please file a bug immediately
so the maintainer of such a package can be suitably tarred and
feathered. ;)

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