Thanks Chris !
yeah, I think Alex is right, we should ask [EMAIL PROTECTED] to see if this is a
potential problem or not.
Blind guess is that if we have to include a LGPL lib to the distribution
package, we are FU.
Alex Karasulu wrote:
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]
<mailto:[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
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