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.
Stefan
Received on 2009-12-09 16:26:39 CET