GPL3 Re: packaging

[Jeremy Huddleston]

It has *nothing* to do with the version of tar affecting the licensing.

The X package that I downloaded just revealed a bug in gnutar (GPLV2)  
that is fixed in gnutar (GPLV3), but we can't trivially update to the  
new gnutar to address this bug because of the license issue, nor can  
we even look at the code changes... so we need to fix the bug in the  
GPLV2 version.  I was just asking what version of tar was used to  
create the tarball, so I could reproduce the bug without relying on  
outside tarballs.

Nothing to see here.  No license flame wars to partake in.  Please  
just go back to your normal routine.

--Jeremy


On Feb 13, 2008, at 11:25, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:22:09AM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 20:12 +0200, Timo Jyrinki wrote:
>>>> 2008/2/13, Sergio Monteiro Basto <sergio at sergiomb.no-ip.org>:
>>>>> I'd like see xorg under GPLv3
>>>> GPLv3 consideration is mainly only useful for projects that already
>>>> use GPL(v2). As X.org is MIT-licensed, like already stated, there's
>>>> nothing to discuss.
>>>
>>> yap sorry , for dummy question.
>>>
>>> but still not understand why can't use gnutar in GPLv3 ?
>>
>> Sounds like a problem with the license restrictions of their OS/ 
>> distro.
>> X.Org doesn't object to using GPLv3'd versions of gnutar, but each  
>> OS/distro
>> creator has to decide for themselves to accept the GPLv3 terms if  
>> they
>> want to include software covering it - that's their problem, not  
>> ours.
>
> I may have fallen off on a curve, here, but if the issue is "does  
> using
> a GPLd tar utility to package our non-GPL package have any effect at
> all on its licensing?", I'm pretty sure the answer is "no".  I'm sure
> you knew that, Alan, but I don't know whether the OP gets it or not.
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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