From: Adam Williamson <awilliamson@mandriva.com>
To: cooker@mandrivalinux.org
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: [Cooker] Mandriva RPM states Zsh license is GPL
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:57:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1201917453.5479.6.camel@lenovo.local.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47A36EA8.2090003@mandriva.org>
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 21:10 +0200, Anssi Hannula wrote:
> Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > While updating Mandriva RPM for 4.3.5 it caught my attention that SPEC states
> > License: GPL. Now, that is wrong as far as I can tell; Zsh is not under GPL
> > license and it IIRC several times it was mentioned on zsh-workers that Zsh won't
> > be put under GPL (I may be wrong here).
> >
> > This poses several questions.
> >
> > If we need License tag in RPM - how should it be called? Zsh comes with LICENSE
> > file but that is not anything from "commonly used" license.
> >
> > Possibly more question to zsh-workers - should I remove License: GPL from
> > Mandriva RPM?
> >
> > To cooker - if we cannot put any "common" open source license tag in zsh RPM -
> > is it allowed to be distributed via main repository?
>
> See http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Policies/Licensing for the license policy.
>
> AFAICS in this case the "correct" license tag is:
> License: BSD-like
Yes, that would be correct.
--
adamw
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-02 2:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-01 18:41 Andrey Borzenkov
2008-02-01 19:10 ` [Cooker] " Anssi Hannula
2008-02-02 1:57 ` Adam Williamson [this message]
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