Re: Licensing issue in mantis

Rex Dieter wrote:
> Gianluca Sforna wrote:
> > sorry for the duplicate post, but I am afraid fedora-extras-list was
> > not the best place for this...
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Gianluca Sforna <giallu@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Mar 30, 2007 10:41 AM
> > Subject: Licensing issue in mantis
> > To: Discussion related to Fedora Extras <fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >
> > Mantis (php) codebase includes a module which comes from a 3rd party
> > project and is licensed with a "free for non commercial use" style
> > clause which is, AFAICT, incompatible with the GPL.
> > Is removing the offending file from the rpm package during %install 
> > enough?
> Yes (imo).
On second thought, it probably ought to be removed from the source 
tarball, on the chance that possible commercial use makes the srpm 
non-re-distributable (depends on the exactly licensing terms, I guess).
-- Rex