On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 01:24 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 06:58 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > Whatfor? Somebody from the "dark circles" at RH ordered you to do so > > and > > because of the GPLv3 had been introduced. I call this overreaction and > > hysteria ... > > Repeat after me. There is no conspiracy. No one ordered me to do this. I > volunteered. OK, then this plan all grow on your own soil? Then this isn't much more but a: "I, Spot, want my pony"? > The immediate motivation was concern over GPLv3 and LGPLv3 > compatibility, as packagers were innocently violating licensing due to a > lack of awareness, and there was no mechanism in place to automate basic > package license checking due to a lack of standardization. > > However, as Smooge pointed out, this is something that a lot of people > have known needed to be done since FC2 (and likely, before). Well, this isn't the first time this issue pops up. We even discussed and rejected a similar proposal on FPC before. Just reiterating and re-proposing something doesn't make a plan/proposal more useful. > And yes, the Licensing wiki is not the utopian mechanism for this. > Having this data in the PackageDB makes a lot more sense to me, but > we'll start here and grow. "We'll start here and grow" .. do you sense what you are saying here? You are saying: "I, Spot, have decided and am dictating the community what to do" 8() Ralf -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
