Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> writes: > It's certainly a direct violation of the intent of the GPL licensed > tools that form so much of the base of Fedora's build environment.
The GPL3 no longer requires us to provide tools used to compile such objects, as long as such tools are general-purpose and used unmodified: "The “Corresponding Source” for a work in object code form means all the source code needed to generate, install, and (for an executable work) run the object code and to modify the work, including scripts to control those activities. However, it does not include the work's System Libraries, or general-purpose tools or generally available free programs which are used unmodified in performing those activities but which are not part of the work. For example, Corresponding Source includes interface definition files associated with source files for the work, and the source code for shared libraries and dynamically linked subprograms that the work is specifically designed to require, such as by intimate data communication or control flow between those subprograms and other parts of the work." We can reject such binaries based on Fedora's philosophy, but we cannot reject them as violating the GPL. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
