[Rpm-maint] relicensing for Maximum RPM

[Karsten Wade]

On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 02:24:32PM +0200, yersinia wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> wrote:
> 
> > On Monday 31 August 2009, Karsten Wade wrote:
> >
> > > I don't easily see where the source for the updated MaxRPM snapshot
> > > is; that would be helpful in gathering a list of all copyright
> > > holders.
> >
> > It used to be in a Mercurial repository at http://hg.rpm.org/max-rpm but
> > that
> > doesn't seem to exist any more (I still have an old working clone from
> > there).
> > I suppose it's http://rpm.org/gitweb?p=max-rpm.git nowadays.
> >
> > > Is that just the names that appear in the snapshot?  Paul,
> > > Matthias, and Ville?
> >
> > Based on git logs, jbj has worked on it quite a bit as well.
> >
> 
> In fact @rpm5.org have a copy of max-rpm in their repo:
> 
> cvs -d :pserver:anonymous at rpm5.org:/cvs login
> 
> press return
> 
> cvs  -d :pserver:rpm-cvs at rpm5.org:/v/rpm/cvs co max-rpm
> 
> It would be interesting to see who is the legal owner of the work
> and the mantainer.

We're not going to find a single legal owner; it's all in the mix of
copyrights.

I'll contact Jeff and see what he says.  From my perspective, it's
likely that an update Maximum RPM could be useful to both communities,
at a certain level.  The question might be, where is the canonical
upstream going to be, and can there be one?  It's possible that
rpm5.org needs to be a full fork moving on its own.  We'll see ...

- Karsten
-- 
Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener
http://quaid.fedorapeople.org
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