Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=225735 Robert Scheck <redhat@xxxxxxxxxxxx> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blocks|182235 | AssignedTo|jgarzik@xxxxxxxxxx |nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- Comment #9 from Robert Scheck <redhat@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 2009-01-17 06:27:18 EDT --- Tom has clarified, that the legal points are solved for Fedora, removing the blocker. --- snipp --- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:53:41 -0500 From: Tom spot Callaway To: Robert Scheck Cc: Sven Lankes, Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: COPYING for ethtool On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 15:50 +0100, Robert Scheck wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Tom spot Callaway wrote: > > As Jeff has pointed out, he's not inserting COPYING, the autotool stack > > is. This is one main reason why we cannot go off the version it uses. > > GPLv3 COPYING gets stuck in all sorts of things that are not GPLv3 as a > > result. > > That's wrong. It's caused, because he's putting no COPYING there in GIT > already and thus the --add-missing at autotools are putting that into. As > far as I know, an existing COPYING gets not overwritten except with use > of maybe --force (which can be overwritten by IIRC --foreign). Well, feel free to try to convince him. We don't need this additional step for Fedora licensing. ~spot --- snapp --- To continue the review as co-maintainer, I've made multiple changes to the package, I'm suggesting the following for formal review. Update to git seems to be necessary for me as it solves some bug reports and feature requests. In order to make me and Sven happy, I've solved the COPYING thing downstream. Spec URL: http://labs.linuxnetz.de/bugzilla/ethtool.spec SRPM URL: http://labs.linuxnetz.de/bugzilla/ethtool-6-2.20090115git.src.rpm Sven, will you go for the formal review? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review