On 12/09/2011 10:01 PM, Tom Callaway wrote:
On 11/15/2011 03:19 AM, Honza Horak wrote:
> If there are some license issues not easy to solve, there is still a
> compat-gdbm package, which ships gdbm-1.8.3 with GPLv2+.
The problem is that compat-gdbm has no -devel package, and we cannot use
the gdbm-devel package for this.
Since Thorsten Kukuk is unwilling to relicense ypserv to resolve the
licensing conflict, we are left with the following options:
* Modify compat-gdbm to have a true -devel package (this will almost
certainly require namespacing it somehow, like "libgdbm_old.so")
I like this one, since it seems to be the easiest solution from my POV.
But I don't see necessary to solve conflicts using renaming library and
header files. I'd rather just let compat-gdbm-devel and gdbm-devel
sub-packages to conflict (use "Conflicts:" explicitly), since it doesn't
make sense to me to have both packages installed at the same time (base
packages won't conflict). Then we don't have to change anything but
"Requires:" in packages like ypserv.
Please, let me know if you see any problems when solving that this way.
Honza
OR
* Have the gdbm upstream relicense to something that is explicitly GPLv2
compatible (or move back to GPLv2+).
OR
* Drop ypserv from Fedora entirely.
~tom
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