On 06/03/2010 10:35 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: >> You might feel that way, but the simple fact is that French citizens can >> not abandon copyright (aka put works into the Public Domain). This is >> the only license that we've been given, but since it is not valid, we >> can't use it. Without a license, we cannot include this in Fedora, >> because we have none of the rights required for Free Software. > > There are plenty of projects partly or entirely written by Europeans which > are supposedly "Public Domain", which all have this issue. A lot of that > code is already in Fedora. Even projects under the GPL or some other > copyright license may be incorporating such code, without even mentioning > it, since there's no requirement to mention use of public domain code. It > feels odd to single out one such project. I am not in any way singling out one such project. If you have examples, please highlight them, and we will address them as well. ~spot -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
