On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Ales Kozumplik <akozu...@redhat.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am facing licensing problems trying to submit DNF (a fork of yum) as a
> package to Fedora. The whole situation was brought to light by Terje
> Røsten[sic][1] , specifically the problem is that few files are missing
> the license preambles at their top (and it is thus not 100% clear what
> license they are under). The files are:
>
> yum/misc.py
> yum/parser.py
> rpmUtils/arch.py
>
> I talked to Tom Callaway and he suggested contacting the yum devel list.
> Could one of the maintainers please confirm that the mentioned files are
> licensed the same way as the rest of the project (GPLv2), or otherwise
> clarify their licensing conditions?
>
> Many thanks,
> Ales
>
> [1] 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/**show_bug.cgi?id=833511#c10<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=833511#c10>
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Yum is licensed under GPLv2+ (GPL Version 2 or later) even if every source
file don't have the license preambles at their top.

Tim
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