Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (145 mails)

[Lukas Ocilka <lukas.ocilka@xxxxxxx>]

Reinhard Max wrote:
> 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?

When I saw this discussion, I decided to ask JW and Coolo if the
solution is legal and Coolo wrote me this:

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Well, as Jürgen is both maintainer of that package and part of our
license review team, I don't feel any need to play lawyer. So stop
worrying :)
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Let's accept that, please :)

Bye
Lukas