On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 11:02 -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 02:45:00PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > The Fedora Engineering Steering Committee would like to remind maintainers > > that a license change in a package is a very serious event - it has as many, > > if not more, implications for related packages as ABI changes do. > > > > Therefore, if your package changes license, even if it just changes the > > license version, it is required that you announce it, whether on this list > > or fedora-devel-list. > > > > Note that any license change to a more restrictive license or license > > version may affect the legality of portions of Fedora as a whole; ergo, > > FESCo reserves the right to block upgrades of packages to versions with > > new licenses to ensure the legal distribution of Fedora. > > BTW, shouldn't we start changing License: tags in packages for *GPL > packages, so that it include the exact version? > E.g. License: GPL2 (or GPL2only?) for GPL 2 without any later, > LGPL2.1+ (or LGPL2.1?) for LGPL 2.1 or any later, etc. We're working on something like that, yes. See the FESCo meeting minutes that Brian sent out today. josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
