To get python-docutils building with python-3.2 I've upgraded the F15 and Rawhide versions to a snapshot of 0.8. Unfortunately, this version brings in new code that's licensed under the Apache license. This would change the license from "Public Domain and MIT and Python and GPLv2" to "Public Domain and MIT and Python and Apache and GPLv3+". The ramification that I can see from this would be that code that makes use of python-docutils (note, not invoking its functionality via the commandline tools it ships, just using it as a library) potentially won't be able to use the GPLv2 as a legal license anymore. Converting to GPLv3 (or GPLv3+) would be okay. I've opened a bug upstream to see if upstream would be willing to change the license on this subset of code so that we can continue to use it under the old license terms: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3304675&group_id=38414&atid=422030 repoquery shows me the following: repoquery -q --whatrequires python-docutils python-docutils-0:0.7-3.fc14.noarch ikiwiki-0:3.20110430-1.fc14.noarch python-sphinx-0:1.0.7-1.fc14.noarch rst2pdf-0:0.16-1.fc14.noarch supybot-meetbot-0:0.1.4-5.fc14.noarch synopsis-0:0.12-4.fc14.x86_64 python-sphinx brings in spyder and supybot-meetbot brings in supybot. There's more packages out there that rely on docutils as an optional dep (I know of at least trac and moin) likely when they have the optional ability to use restructured text. I'm not sure whether this change would propagate through code that relies on docutils (so that, for instance, no supybot plugin could be GPLv2 or no trac plugin could be GPLv2) but that seems likely. I'll keep an eye on the bug and ping the author of the code directly to try and resolve this without relicensing but I felt this was problematic enough that I should warn people now of the potential impact to their packages. -Toshio
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