Fedora Board Recap 2007-JUL-10
Josh Boyer
jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Fri Jul 13 02:39:56 UTC 2007
On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 07:20 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Josh Boyer wrote:
>
> >
> > Can you explain this a bit more please? Particularly if you're going to
> > push it to FESCo.
> >
> > 1) Why do we need to examine code coming from upstream updates? (E.g.
> > only to make sure the license tag spells out the correct version?)
>
> I did attend this meeting (last one as a leaving board member). GPLv3 is
> mutually incompatible with GPLv2. If we pull in updates where the code
> has been relicensed we would need to check for implications which are
> rather complex. See http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/blog/
Hm, ok. Should that be part of the review steps now?
>
> > 2) What packaging issues need to be discussed with legal?
>
> EULA and collective copyright is under GPLv2 for Fedora currently.
Not packaging issues.
> Whether Software that is entirely under the copyright of Red Hat or
> where Fedora is upstream would move from GPLv2 to GPLv3.
Not packaging issues.
> Whether it is worth the effort to separate the license tags in RPM
> between GPLv2 and GPLv3 licensed software from the legal perspective.
OK.
> Any other legal things to cross check as a result of a additional GPLv3
> license and any new restrictions that it might have introduced to us as
> a distribution.
This is what I'm asking about. Sounds like it's still in the
investigatory stage.
josh
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