[Mageia-dev] Importing Licensing Policy

Mon Jan 10 01:23:37 CET 2011

Le dimanche 09 janvier 2011 à 00:15 +0100, Remy CLOUARD a écrit :
+> Hello,
+> 
+> I just started to import the Licensing policy from the Mandriva wiki.
+> 
+> Here are notable changes:
+> 
+> - replacing Mandriva with Mageia
+> - adapting the page to the Mageia mirror structure
+> - in the mandriva page (which is outdated on that point) there was a
+>   mention about a contact, which is Adam Williamson on the mandriva
+>   wiki. Who would be in charge of the points mentionned in the first
+>   paragraph of the licensing guidelines ? Shall we just keep the
+>   mageia-dev mailing list as a contact ?
+
+Adam basically asked to Tom Spot, a Red hat manager that is in charge of
+licensing, among others ( he is the bridge between engineering and legal
+departement ).
+
+Maybe adam can help us again :)
+
+> - no mention of restricted repositories at the moment
+> - subsequently, no package eligible for the “Proprietary” license
+
+*khof* nvidia *khof*
+
+> - adding a complete list of license names (produced by rpmlint)
+
+I think we should try to sync with fedora, as that basically what is
+done for rpmlint.
+
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+