[Rule-list] Thoughts on licensing

[Devon]

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On Tuesday 02 April 2002 07:18 pm, Marco Fioretti wrote:

> There are several things, however, that we should not forget about
> RULE and licensing.
>
> 1) miniconda: if it comes from anaconda, which is, IIRC, GPL, can't it
>    be GPL only? I mean, do we have any room to manoeuver here?

That's my understanding as well. RedHat releases Anaconda under the GPL. 
Anyone can use, modify, redistribute, fold, bend, spindle or mutilate....
The resulting product must remain GPL.

> 2) Same as above about slinky: where does it come from, license-wise?

Slinky is Several things:
A boot disk containing:
Busybox - GPL
uClibc - LGPL
nano - GPL
mke2fs - GPL
cfdisk - GPL
fdisk - GPL
syslinux - BSD

The installer scripts:
Shell scripts, written by me, with input and feed back from the RULE 
project. They are released under the GPL as well. Unless there are strong 
arguments against it, I see no reason change this.

The installed programs (The RPMS) We don't distribute them, they are 
released by Red Hat and others under various licenses. To the best of my 
knowledge, they are all released under licenses that the Free Software 
Foundation lists as "GPL Compatable".

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