[Mageia-dev] fatback - can we distribute it?

Fri Mar 2 06:52:30 CET 2012

On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 06:24:02 +0100
+"Johnny A. Solbu" <cooker at solbu.net> wrote:
+
+> > I have uploaded fatback to svn but would like a review regarding
+> > the license or rather the manual wording re. it's use before
+> > submitting.  
+> 
+> I did a "grep -i license" and found that everywhere where the GPL is
+> mentioned, which is 5 files and the COPYING, is version 2, not v1 as
+> you have in the spec License tag. You should fix that.
+
+
+Did you look at COPYING?
+
+As a header above the GPLv2 license:
+
+********************************************
+* NOTICE:
+* The following license applies only to the 
+* files getopt.c, getopt.h, and getopt1.c.
+* these are borrowed from glibc.
+* This licence does not in any way apply
+* to the remainder of the fatback program
+*********************************************
+
+Because of the dubious/uncertain license for "the remainder of the
+fatback program" I feel that the same course as debian would be the
+most prudent action.
+
+
+    Charles
+
+-- 
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+everything else follows in the same way.
+		-- Alan J. Perlis
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