[Fedora-legal-list] PHP PEAR channel definition license

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Mon Feb 8 16:03:54 UTC 2010


On 02/06/2010 06:07 PM, Jon Stanley wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Umm, why would you package something that only contained such a file?
>> I'm assuming it points to PHP PEAR code, why aren't you packaging that?
> 
> I'm not packaging anything :)
> 
> I'm asking the question for David Nalley, who asked the question of
> me.  To directly answer the question though, the PHP packaging
> guidelines seem to require this -
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:PHP#PEAR_Packages_from_a_non_standard_channel.2Frepository
> and there are many examples already in the package collection:

Eh. Okay. Seems a silly thing to package standalone, but whatever. Use:

License: Public Domain

Since these channel files are not copyrightable, they can be treated as
if they were in the public domain.

~spot



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