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. -- This book fills a much-needed gap. -- Moses Hadas --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
