Are you guys aware of the dispute over some of the code in the former Lycoris distro, namely Iris, and other Desktop LX packages?
Not me. But as always with copyright, speak to a lawyer, and refer to the copyright holders. As far as I see it, the FSF is not the copyright holder of this thing called Iris, and can do very little. I wonder, to what extent is Mandriva really liable, especially if they have in fact inherited Lycoris' failure to comply with the GPL? While I think the community is largely very forgiving, what is the effect of the auto-termination clause? How should the community view this? There is very little that the community can do, only the copyright holder(s) has any legal significance. What you should do is speak with the copyright holder(s), since that is the only part that can do anything. But what about the other GPL'ed packages? For instance, Bash and NCurses are among the programs that Lycoris allegedly failed to include sources for. Section 3 of the GNU GPLv2 applies here, if they didn't do one of those paragraphs, then they are in violation. If this is the case, then the FSF can do something for those two packages. And ignore Alexander Terekhov. _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list Gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss