On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Luke Kanies <[email protected]> wrote:

> On May 6, 2009, at 10:59 AM, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>
>  Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:34 AM, James Turnbull
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> R.I.Pienaar wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> - The file 'COPYING' is not included anymore, the redhat spec file
>>>>> still mentions it though, either add the file or just remove it
>>>>> from line 63 of conf/redhat/facter.spec
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Noted thanks.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Is there a reason it is not included anymore?
>>>
>>
>> In the facter-1.5.4 tarball, COPYING was identical to the LICENSE
>> file, which is still included in the 1.5.5rc1 tarball.  But I think
>> there is a bit of a problem still.
>>
>> In a86577c (Fixing the GPL/LGPL incompatibility by choosing the
>> oldest-mentioned license (GPL)), COPYING was removed and LICENSE was
>> modified.  Prior to this commit, COPYING was the LGPLv2 and LICENSE
>> was text similar to what is included in puppet, stating that facter is
>> made available under the terms of the GPLv2 or later.  But with
>> a86577c, LICENSE was updated to GPLv3.  I am guessing this was not the
>> real intention?
>>
>> Perhaps a proper fix would restore the previous LICENSE file and
>> update the COPYING file to reflect the GPLv2 content from
>> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt ?
>>
>
> Yes, that's the right approach.  I'd like Facter under the LGPL, but I
> haven't tracked the license file changes enough to know what happened when.
>
> I'll get it all figured out and straightened up next week.
>

I clearly didn't actually get it all straightened out that week.

Anyone opposed to just accepting Todd's patch?

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