On 11/08/2017 04:25 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
Well that page only refers to OpenSSL and even then it points out that other distros have differing opinions. Personally I think it is dubious even for OpenSSL, and if you start broadening it further to claim it applies to what are effectively application level libiraries like libcups, where does it end ? You could just claim it applies to any widely used library in Fedora, at which point you're effectively just trying to nullify all licensing rules, whichs is not acceptable IMHO.
We ship source for everything which runs in userspace, and everything is under free software licenses, so I'm not particularly concerned that what we do is evading license terms, especially as far as the big picture is concerned.
The broad interpretation of system libraries simply ensures that Fedora has the same rights the FSF has granted to proprietary operating system vendors, and the same rights as ISVs building software on top of Fedora. The weakening is already part of the license, and it's not up to us to change that.
Thanks, Florian _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
