On Dec 9, 2009, at 9:24 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 09:11:19AM -0600, Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
>> In doing the recent license audit work[1], one of the big remaining
>> sections is packages/, primarily the stuff which is used to build the
>> MSI installer on Windows. We have several files which include the a
>> copyright notice attributing them to Microsoft, and upon further
>> research, they look to be part of the WiX distribution. WiX is an
>> open source tool released under the CPL[2] which is used to create MSI
>> packages for Windows.
>>
>> Because of this licensing scenario, I don't think we can reasonably
>> relicense these files[3]. We can still distribute them, probably, but
>> IANAL. My question is: do we need to distribute packages/ in the
>> first place, or is that area of our repository just a means for people
>> working on packaging to version control their scripts and such.
>>
>> Any advice on this topic would be appreciated, especially since
>> clearing up the licensing is an important step toward graduating from
>> the Incubator.
>
> Just another data point:
> Virtually all Subversion packages in the non-Windows world are
> maintained outside of our tree anyway, so nuking packages/ won't
> do any harm for them.
We do have the rpm packaging files in our tree. And I'm not talking about removing that part of the tree, just not shipping it (like we don't currently ship contrib/).
-Hyrum
Received on 2009-12-09 17:00:15 CET