Zak Greant wrote:
> On Mar 18, 2004, at 21:43, Jan Wieck wrote:
>> There is the problem. At the first place in the chain, where it is not
>> made totally clear that "this binary version of BAZBAR is FOOBAR
>> licensed but contains differently licensed libraries, inherited from
>> the included FOOFOO package, that are not fully compliant to the
>> FOOBAR license distribution terms! Please refer to the MyFOO license
>> terms for details of redistributing any rebundled, relinked or
>> otherwise combined packages containing this binary BAZBAR package",
>> the whole thing goes belly up.
>
> Hrm. Now that I think about this a bit more, how is this that different
> from dealing with any other software package. You always need to check
> out the licensing requirements. For example, you don't see big warnings
> on PHP that says:
I see that MySQL has announced and published the FOSS exception already.
Did this point cause any changes to it?
Jan
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