On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 12/26/2011 09:19 AM, Hiroyuki Iizaka wrote:Like others have already pointed out, rpm's license has no implications on the content of what is packaged with it. Just like... say, creating a .zip archive of your own files does not make those files magically covered by the license of the archiver application.
Hello,
Of August I was asked about RPM license,
and I got following reply.
The issue of RPM's license only comes into play if you are
distributing RPM itself or any changes to RPM.
For example, if it is using the linux os for embedded devices
as it would not be a problem?
In this case, it would distribute the rpm system.
Therefore, if the license of librpmdb.so / librpmio.so aren't LGPL,
there is a problem.
It means that, the proprietary software which packaged by rpm and
used in embedded devices, it have to open the source code.
So, I want to clarify that librpmdb.so and librpmio.so are LGPL or not.
The LGPL exception in rpm's license only matters if the proprietary software you're talking about *links to* librpm, for all other uses GPL and LGPL are the same. So the question is, does it link to librpm or not?
Last but not least: people on this list cannot give you legal advice, you should consult a lawyer for that.
It would be nice to know whether if including a private copy of rpm and yum (renamed blyum) in a proprietary product (BMC BladeLogic),
or so it seems , is a violation of the license (if using GPL in particular) of rpm or yum. But IANAL.....
For example
or so it seems , is a violation of the license (if using GPL in particular) of rpm or yum. But IANAL.....
For example
https://communities.bmc.com/communities/message/216165
and here (same person apparently but with different mail origin)
http://lists.baseurl.org/pipermail/yum/2010-May/023309.html
http://lists.baseurl.org/pipermail/yum/2010-May/023313.html
and here (same person apparently but with different mail origin)
http://lists.baseurl.org/pipermail/yum/2010-May/023309.html
http://lists.baseurl.org/pipermail/yum/2010-May/023313.html
- Panu -
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