[Sugar-devel] Licensing problem in sugar-base

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 09:25:46AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 01:39, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>> sugar-base 0.84.0 has (compared to 0.82.2) added a few files below 
>> /src/sugar/dispatch. Most of them contains no copyright information, 
>> but __init__.py - the only file small enough that it is arguable not 
>> possible to claim copyright for its own content - says the following:
>
>Yeah, Makefile.am wasn't listing license.txt as having to be included 
>in the tarball. Has been fixed and will get in a new one today.
>
>This is the missing file:
>
>http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-base/repos/mainline/blobs/master/src/sugar/dispatch/license.txt
>
>Do you think we'll be ok once it's included in the tarball?

Yes, when above file is included in your source tarball there should be 
no problem (for Debian or any other distribution I know of - in theory 
some distribution could choose to restrict themselves in waus that did 
not allow those particular licensing terms, or some license could clash 
with it - but that's pure theory!).


  - Jonas

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