Could you run this by legal@ to see what the final verdict is? Alex
On Jan 6, 2008 6:44 PM, Chris Custine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have spoken with a few people about checking out OpenInstaller in the > past few weeks and I wanted to give a quick little bit of information. I > think the OpenInstaller project would be very cool for building up some > consistent cross-platform installers using a single toolkit. However, while > I was reviewing the licensing of the dependencies this weekend, I realized > that the packager embeds at least one LGPL product inside the installer > package (primarily CHARVA which looks like the tool used to create text > based installers). This means that to ship installers based on this > toolkit, we would be shipping LGPL libs embedded in the installer toolkit. > So at this point I am not sure if there is any point in continuing down that > path, but if anyone has any opinions otherwise let me know. > > The alternative for now is to continue to expand the current installers to > additional specific platform packaging (Debian and Sun Pkg manager are > frequently requested), which is something I was trying to help us avoid > since maintenance and consistency of the packages requires a fair bit of > time and interest, neither of which are in abundance. > > I have started reviewing the current installers and should have some of > the current issues cleaned up by next weekend, but I can't guarantee that I > have the bandwidth to learn how to create the deb and Sun pkg installers any > time soon so if anyone else wants to lend a hand with that it would be > appreciated. > > Thanks, > Chris >
