[Yum-devel] [PATCH] Set yum/sqlutils.py license header to GPLv2+

[Sascha Peilicke]

On 12/17/2012 04:24 PM, Ales Kozumplik wrote:
> On 12/17/2012 03:13 PM, Sascha Peilicke wrote:
>> This particular file is GPLv2-only, whereas the rest of the codebase is
>> GPLv2+. A send a mail months ago to get a clarification on the issue but
>> maybe a patch is better (bnc#785513).
>> ---
> 
> Hello Sascha,
> 
> I hit the problem with some files in Yum being something else than
> GPLv2+ when forking Yum into DNF:
> 
> http://lists.baseurl.org/pipermail/yum-devel/2012-July/009376.html
> 
> The previous discussion's consensus was that it is was too much hassle
> to change the licenses on files. Also, there is transaction.py which is
> only GPL. This is how DNF handles licenses of these files:
> 
> https://github.com/akozumpl/dnf/blob/master/PACKAGE-LICENSING

The last message in the thread is
http://lists.baseurl.org/pipermail/yum-devel/2012-July/009380.html and I
don't see any resolution to this issue. It may not be of interest for
Seth to clarify this but for distros this is an issue. AFAICS, yum is
either licenses as

- Any GPL
- GPLv2 only
- GPLv2 or later

As far as I get it, the last option seems to be what is actually
intended. But even though only RH engineers seem to be involved, the
trivial fix to these files seems to be quite complex :-/
-- 
With kind regards,
Sascha Peilicke
SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany
GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)

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