It reminds me of some of Mozilla's Firefox/Iceweasel stuff. Lemme get this in front of the board. --g --------------------------------------------------------------- Greg DeKoenigsberg || Fedora Foundation || fedoraproject.org Be an Ambassador || http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --------------------------------------------------------------- On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 15:27 +0000, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > > Hi > > > > I was considering adding POV-Ray to fedora extras, butI notice that > > the license that POV-Ray is distributed is not in any of the 3 lists > > referenced in the packaging guidelines. However, their redistribution > > license found here: > > > > http://www.povray.org/distribution-license.html > > > > specifically names fedora and implies that it is fine to redistribute > > POV-Ray for this distribution. So, shall I go ahead and submit? > The povray license had repeatedly been subject to fierce arguments. > > Several people (eg. me) consider it not to be an OpenSource License, but > read it (IANAL) as a "Free Beer License" (You can get the sources, but > you are not allowed to reuse the source code). > > May-be you should contact the "legal channels" of Fedora, the FF, the > OSI, or may-be POV-Ray Ltd. to give a legally qualified statement on > this. > > Ralf > > > > -- > fedora-extras-list mailing list > fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list > -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
