On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 00:15 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > > I should probably talk to Spot about that. > > So, the rule here is that we don't take outside linking into effect when > marking the package's licensing. We go by what the source in the tarball > tells us. Otherwise, it would become massively too complicated to figure > it out for a lot of packages. I see that, but it presents a rather significant problem. Say we have something whose own license is LGPLv2+ - let's call it Component B - linking against something whose license is GPLv3 (Component C). Component B is then effectively GPLv3, but our license tags will not reflect that. If there is something _else_ that in turn links against Component B - call it Component A - and we want to find out whether there's a license conflict, we will treat Component B, for license checking purposes, as if it were LGPLv2+. But, for our purposes, it no longer is - we can only consider it to be GPLv3. So we may say that there's no problem with Component A linking against Component B, when actually there is... -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
