Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (145 mails)

[Bernhard Walle <bwalle@xxxxxxx>]

* Reinhard Max <max@xxxxxxx> [2007-07-25 12:36]:
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 at 12:00, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> 
> > You wouldn't be able to install the package without breaking 
> > dependencies. That's annoying at least.
> 
> Right, but that wouldn't matter from a legal point of view. If a 
> license requires us to include the license text with the binary 
> package, we might break the license no matter how hard we make it to 
> install the package without the license file being installed as well.
> 
> GPLv2 says (section 1.) "[...] and give any other recipients of the 
> Program a copy of this License along with the Program." So, is setting 
> a symlink to a file and adding a dependency to the package enough to 
> fulfill the "along with the Program" requirement?

Why not ask our legals? :)


Thanks,
   Bernhard
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