Re: PackageUpdater: silently changing license ?!?

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tir, 11 03 2008 kl. 08:41 -0400, skrev Todd Zullinger:
> Tim wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 08:25 +0100, Kenn Thyrsted wrote:
> > * Sat Jan 26 2008 Martin Sourada <martin.sourada@xxxxxxxxx> - 0.6.2-1
> > - New upstream. Patches merged into upstream
> > - Update license to GPLv2+
> > 
> > That's what it changed to.  You could look into an older package, to see
> > what the license used to be, if you've got an older one handy.
> 
> This is where looking at the package's history is really handy.
> Fedora packages currently use CVS for maintaining the changes to spec
> files and such.  You can browse the history of the gtk-nodoka-engine
> spec at: http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/rpms/gtk-nodoka-engine/
> 
> The last change to the Fedora 8 spec file is at:
> http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/rpms/gtk-nodoka-engine/F-8/gtk-nodoka-engine.spec?r1=1.9&r2=1.10
> 
> So, the license was clarified from GPL version 2, to GPL version 2 or
> any later version.  (This seemingly minor distinction is important
> because it allows you to use the code under the GPL version 3 if you
> want to -- or if you need to in order to combine the code with some
> other software that is GPL version 3 only or GPL version 3 or later.)
> 
> In this particular case, the license was clarified upstream (though
> the distinction isn't terribly large, as the Fedora package maintainer
> is also the upstream maintainer).  The change set showing where the
> license was clarified as GPLv2 or later is:
> https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/nodoka/changeset/9ceba709349a569bbd7fa0680652f849de5788cc
> 
> >> Needless to say, - i was rather surprised by the fact that licenses is
> >> more or less silently changed.
> >> 
> >> - Does any of You know if this is "business as usual" in fedora ?
> 
> Often times, the license change is really just a clarification of the
> license in the Fedora package.  Packages used to use a simpler set of
> short names for various licenses (e.g. GPL for any GPL license
> version).  That's problematic because there are incompatibilities
> between GPLv2 and GPLv3.  There's a nice long page describing the
> licenses which are acceptable for Fedora packages on the wiki:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing
> 
> HTH,
> 
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Thanks.

I feel much more at ease, now :-)

Kenn

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