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=502024 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Flag|needinfo? | --- Comment #6 from Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2009-06-19 13:07:52 EDT --- (In reply to comment #5) > I received the following reply from Boris Kolpackov > > ====================================================== > Thanks for your effort in packaging XSD for Fedora, it is very much > appreciated. Regarding the licensing issue, unfortunately relicensing > the code under "GPLv2 or later" is not an option at the moment and > making it "GPLv2 with exceptions" opens up a potential maintenance > problem. Let me explain: the files that are under GPLv2 are from the > base libraries that provide functionality that is not related to (nor > is aware of) Xerces-C++. In other words, code from, say libcult, is > used to parse command line arguments and just happens to be in the > same executable (xsdcxx) as code that uses Xerces-C++. Since this > GPLv2 code is not interacting in any way with the Xerces-C++ code > under ASL 2.0, my understanding of the licenses suggests that there > is no issue in having these two pieces of code in the same executable. NO. http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation i.e. "Having these two pieces of code in the same executable" makes these all parts one big program and in this case all these codes must be GPLv2+ compatible. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review