On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:29:57 -0800
Julius Davies <juliusdavies(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Maybe the overall "master" copyright license for the Fedora
compilation causes every single GPL+ compatible file inside Fedora to
be licensed as GPL+ ? So every LGPL, BSD, MIT file which *can* be
relicensed in this way *is" even if such a relicensing is unnecessary
for license compliance?
Take a look at this file on your Fedora
CDROM:
ftp://ftp.nrc.ca/pub/systems/linux/redhat/fedora/linux/releases/12/Everything/i386/os/GPL
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*****************************************************************************
The following copyright applies to the Fedora compilation and any
portions of Fedora it does not conflict with. Whenever this
policy does conflict with the copyright of any individual portion of
Fedora, it does not apply.
*****************************************************************************
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, June 1991
[Rest of file is verbatim copy of GPLv2 license.]
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I haven't been following this thread closely, but this reference to
GPLv2 is a licensing bug - an erroneous holdover from the RHL era, and
should not have been included. I can say categorically that any global
copyright license for the Fedora compilation is intended to have no
effect on the licensing of Fedora packages.
- RF
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Richard E. Fontana
Open Source Licensing and Patent Counsel
Red Hat, Inc.