[Bug 576518] New: Reconsider licence clause "or later"
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=576518 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=576518#c0 Summary: Reconsider licence clause "or later" Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.3 Version: Factory Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: Markus.Elfring@web.de QAContact: jsrain@novell.com CC: jw@novell.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- Jürgen Weigert mentioned in his talk "Legal Aspects of Distribution Development" that the licence specification "or any later version" is an issue for the SuSE/Novell legal team. http://video.fosdem.org/2009/devrooms/opensuse/fosdem09_day1_09-legal.ogg (Listen around 27:11 / 04:49:00) http://license.opensuse.org/doc/Legal_Aspects_of_Distribution_Development_v4... (page 12) But the information "GPL v2 or later" appears in packages like for YaST components so far. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=576518 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=576518#c1 Ciaran Farrell <cfarrell@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |cfarrell@novell.com |ovo.novell.com | --- Comment #1 from Ciaran Farrell <cfarrell@novell.com> 2010-02-05 08:31:34 UTC --- Correct. Insofar as it is possible to change the license designation (i.e. that copyright is held by Novell), it would be desirable that we get around to doing this over the next code cycle. That GPLv2| GPLv3 "only" is preferred is, however, a (relatively) new situation. The license of YaST certainly predates the decision (or at least the communication of the decision). It would therefore be good to start pushing the license changes over upcoming major releases. We need to be sure what effect the license changes could have on dependent packages. License changes could have a more severe effect than ABI changes... -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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