tir, 11 03 2008 kl. 19:06 +1030, skrev Tim: > 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. > So...Theoretically i could install a program licensed under GNU GPL , and then - if i do not pay attention - end up with the very same (updated) program installed under some proprietary license by means of the update feature. Or ?? Kenn
