Steve Frampton wrote:
[...]
> Hmmm...is the 'up2date' package GPL'ed? Maybe the community would
> consider patching it so it *does* work with other sites (I can understand
> why only paying customers should only be allowed to use the priority FTP
> site, but 'up2date' sounds like a good idea for everybody, so why not??)
up2date will allow you to specify a different host. Some of the python
parts of up2date reveal GPL (package.py and rpmdb.py), but the other .py
files reveal only "Copyright (c) 1999 Red Hat, Inc."
> If it is *not* under GPL, then why is Red Hat distributing the package
> (and installing it by default) on non-boxed sets of Red Hat?
It's OK to distribute copyrighted and non-GPL'd sw on a distro if you have
permission from the copyright owner. If you happen to be the owner of the
distro and the sw, you're fine.
Regardless of the copyright situation (IANAL) I'd suspect that inspection
of the python code might assist in setting up up2date-compatible ftp
servers.
-W-
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