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? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
