On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 03:30:30PM +0200, Erik van Pienbroek wrote:
On to everybody's favorite subject (ahum..), the legal stuff.
First of all, I didn't do a thorough research yet about all the licenses
involved. For GCC and odcctools I don't see any license
incompatibilities which prevent it from inclusion in Fedora.
The Mac OS X SDK seems to be a mix a various licenses. I've seen files
with the following licenses:
- Apple Public Source License version 1.0
- Apple Public Source License version 1.1
- Apple Public Source License version 2.0
- GPLv2+
According to [12] and [13] the APSL 1.0 and 1.1 licenses are a no-go for
Fedora, so that may indicate the whole project isn't welcome in Fedora..
We could try to extract all the APSL 2.0 and GPLv2+ pieces from the SDK,
but I'm afraid it won't be enough to compile regular applications.
Another issue we have is that the SDK contains several libraries which
are needed to compile regular applications. The source code for a number
of these libraries isn't open source so that may also be another reason
why the SDK isn't welcome in Fedora.
If licenses don't meet the Fedora requirements, there may still be the
option of pushing it to RPM Fusion Free or Non-Free repos.
Daniel
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