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. Jakub -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
