[Fedora-legal-list] eclipse and php require GPLV2+

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Wed Nov 11 08:56:09 UTC 2009


On 11/11/2009 06:40 PM, Julius Davies wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I was looking at the some of the dependencies generated by AutoReqProv
> in the RPMS in Fedora 11 and I noticed the following:
> 
> 
> eclipse-swt (epl)
> requires: libxpcom.so
> provided-by: nspluginwrapper (gplv2+)

This is actually linked to xulrunner, which is "MPLv1.1 or GPLv2+ or
LGPLv2+".

> php-cli (php)
> requires: libreadline.so
> provided-by: readline (gplv2+)

This looks to be a genuine issue. I'm looking into it. (Readline is now
GPLv3+, but I'm not sure it makes a difference.)

~spot




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