Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2017 at 6:02 PM From: "Richard Brown" <rbrown...@opensuse.org> > > > You mean the spec file, changes file etc when you refer to 'form'? > > > > If so I suspect it's related to the missing header with copyright > > attribution > > to SUSE AG. > > > > Now, the question is: would Packman be ok with that? > > I would hope the answer is "no" > > If Packman receives packages which clearly remove the legal copyright > attribution of previous authors, Packman would > need to be prepared for serious conversations with the copyright holder who's > attributions are being removed. > > This is a very serious situation which fundamentally undermines the legal > basis under which free and open source > licenses operate, so is taken very seriously by corporations that run their > business in compliance with those > licenses. No. I was talking about the copyring attribution for the spec file itself, with which I seem to recall from a previous interaction OP has a problem with.
Now, I assume that a commercial entity like SUSE can't afford to distribute anything where the IP is not clearly defined, even for a mere script. Would Packman be more lenient in that regard? Regard _______________________________________________ Packman mailing list Packman@links2linux.de http://lists.links2linux.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/packman
