From: Anssi Hannula <anssi@mandriva.org>
To: cooker@mandrivalinux.org
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: [Cooker] Mandriva RPM states Zsh license is GPL
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:10:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47A36EA8.2090003@mandriva.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200802012141.35226.arvidjaar@mail.ru>
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
--
Anssi Hannula
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-01 19:12 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 ` Anssi Hannula [this message]
2008-02-02 1:57 ` [Cooker] " Adam Williamson
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