On 12/09/2011 10:01 PM, Tom Callaway wrote: > On 11/15/2011 03:19 AM, Honza Horak wrote: > >> If there are some license issues not easy to solve, there is still a >> compat-gdbm package, which ships gdbm-1.8.3 with GPLv2+. > > The problem is that compat-gdbm has no -devel package, and we cannot use > the gdbm-devel package for this. > > Since Thorsten Kukuk is unwilling to relicense ypserv to resolve the > licensing conflict, we are left with the following options: > > * Modify compat-gdbm to have a true -devel package (this will almost > certainly require namespacing it somehow, like "libgdbm_old.so") I like this one, since it seems to be the easiest solution from my POV. But I don't see necessary to solve conflicts using renaming library and header files. I'd rather just let compat-gdbm-devel and gdbm-devel sub-packages to conflict (use "Conflicts:" explicitly), since it doesn't make sense to me to have both packages installed at the same time (base packages won't conflict). Then we don't have to change anything but "Requires:" in packages like ypserv. Please, let me know if you see any problems when solving that this way. Honza > > OR > > * Have the gdbm upstream relicense to something that is explicitly GPLv2 > compatible (or move back to GPLv2+). > > OR > > * Drop ypserv from Fedora entirely. > > ~tom > > == > Fedora Project -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
