On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 08:25 +0100, Kenn Thyrsted wrote: > Hi Y'all > > My F8 packageUpdater offers me Updated gtk-nodoka-engine > > Details says: > "New upstream release containing license revision" > > Im rather surprised by this. > I can't find anything about what license it changes from and to. Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-1092 2008-03-07 19:34:44 Update Information: New upstream release containing license revision. New upstream release containing license revision. ChangeLog: * Sat Jan 26 2008 Martin Sourada <martin.sourada@xxxxxxxxx> - 0.6.2-1 - New upstream. Patches merged into upstream - Update license to GPLv2+ That's what it changed to. You could look into an older package, to see what the license used to be, if you've got an older one handy. > Needless to say, - i was rather surprised by the fact that licenses is > more or less silently changed. > > - Does any of You know if this is "business as usual" in fedora ? It's a common thing for some things... Most of things we have in the distro are not really "Fedora" packages, so to speak. They're a thing that was created by somebody completely separate to Fedora, but the Fedora project has included a packing of it. So, it's up to *them* what license it releases as. e.g. OpenOffice.org, Apache, Evolution, etc., all come with Fedora, but none of them belong to Fedora. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
