Stale Fedora Hosted Projects (revisited)
Jeroen van Meeuwen
kanarip at kanarip.com
Wed Sep 24 09:59:11 UTC 2008
Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Nigel Jones wrote:
>> On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 01:59 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>>> Nigel Jones wrote:
>>>> IIRC the GPL at least requires that the code be kept for 3 years (hence
>>>> why we can't clean the look-a-side cache from memory).
>>>>
>>> AFAIK that only goes to /distribution/ under GPLv2 section 3b, not the
>>> "upstream" SCM, but then again I'm not sure and it may be worthwhile
>>> looking into the requirements of the Licenses of the software in these SCMs.
>> Distribution is very loose in my terms.
>>
>> Technically by distributing the source code, we are errr acting as a
>> distribution point. IANAL but that's my view.
>
> Perhaps. But the GPLv2 portion that has the three year clause deals
> with distributing binaries. Upstream SCM would be releasing source, so
> that doesn't apply. If the upstream on fedorahosted was releasing
> binary tarballs then it might be a little greyer. Although one would
> hope they were releasing both binary tarballs and source tarballs. Then
> it would fall under a different clause with no timeframe.
>
Given that we alone can think of a couple of arguments for or against
GPL distribution for 3 years or not, and there's other licenses as well,
this might be more appropriately handled by the legally literate people
(no offense to you, I just know I certainly am not)
-Jeroen
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