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

[Julius Davies]

Hi, Fedora-Legal,

Congratulations on FC12 !  Can't wait to try it out.

Here's my question:

How does the package system (e.g. apt/up2date/yum???) deal with
dependencies that can be satisfied by more than 1 package?  Or does
this just not matter in real life?

I put together a list of all pertinent "Provides" entries on the FC11
i386 DVD that can be satisfied in more than one way.  The list is
pretty small (25 entries) since I discarded things that never show up
in "Requires".  Any tips on how I should choose which package to
depend on for what I'm doing (analyzing licensing between a package
and its dependencies).



Ambiguous maintainer "provides":
-------------------------------------
 dbus-bluez-pin-helper
 java
 java-sasl
 jaxp_parser_impl
 jaxp_transform_impl
 jce
 jre
 jsp
 jsse
 kdelibs
 kernel
 kernel-devel
 kernel-drm-nouveau
 libproxy-pac
 pcsc-ifd-handler
 pinentry-gui
 policykit-authentication-agent
 qt
 servlet
 syslog
 text-www-browser


Ambiguous AutoReqProv "provides:"
-------------------------------------
 libbaconvideowidget.so.0
 libjawt.so
 libjvm.so
 libxpcom.so



Here's a specific example for "Provides: jaxp_transform_impl":

saxon
Java XSLT processor
saxon-6.5.5-2.3.fc11.src.rpm
http://saxon.sourceforge.net/
mplv1.0

xalan-j2
xalan-j2-2.7.0-8.5.fc11.src.rpm
http://xalan.apache.org/
asl 1.1 and asl 2.0 and w3c



yours,

Julius



>>> 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+".
>>
>
> Thanks so much for this clarification!  I see now where I made a mistake.  Oops.
>



-- 
yours,

Julius Davies
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