script to remove copyrighted content before packaging

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jan 28 13:22:59 UTC 2009


Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:02:32 -0200, Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote:
> 
>> where are the script to remove copyrighted content before packaging ?
> 
> There isn't any, really. Usually only humans can decide what exactly
> the copyrighted content is, and how to remove it (delete the whole file?
> Delete only parts of a file? If the file is code, what else needs to be
> changed?)

Also, except for very small percentage of public domain content, 
everything else is copyrighted in Fedora. It is just more liberally 
licensed. Copyright != restricted content.

Rahul




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