Minutes from August 2 Release Wranglers call

Egbert Eich eich at pdx.freedesktop.org
Mon Aug 2 11:27:01 PDT 2004


Daniel Stone writes:
 > On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 11:01:03AM -0600, Paul Anderson wrote:
 > > Daniel raised an issue (bug 955):
 > > 
 > > http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=955
 > > 
 > > about some autoconfig/getconfig code that may be under a non-free
 > > license and therefore should be removed.  Egbert believes that
 > > the code this was published under the old license, in which case
 > > the license issue doesn't apply.  Daniel asked if we can get some
 > > outside opinions on this.  Leon will contact Steve Nunn for an
 > > opinion on this.  Egbert will update the bugzilla entry to contain
 > > his knowledge of this.
 > 
 > This is now NOTABUGed; the confusion arose because
 > autoconfig-1.0.diff.gz from the X-Oz site bears the 1.1 licence, but the
 > code that was checked into CVS, while still the same, has the 1.0
 > licence. I kinda figured that there had to be fire with smoke, but some
 > legal minds I have boundless respect for have told me otherwise, so I've
 > NOTABUGed it, and I'll just sit here with my tail between my legs for a
 > bit and go back to working on pkgconfig stuff.
 > 

Thanks Daniel!

I appreciate that you tracked down where the misunderstanding may
have arisen. This way we can avoid it in the future.

Cheers,
	Egbert.


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