On Monday 27 November 2006 16:57, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 19:38 -0500, Jim Perrin wrote:
licensing issues will prevent CentOS from shipping freetds stuff.
To head off all the "But it's LGPL just like other stuff you ship!" Please see http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2005-September/msg01164 .html
What we can do is provide a wiki article that tells people how to build it from RPMS provided by RPMForge. I think we will build the php-extras SRPM in CentOS-Extras, though we are still discussing that.
I know it might not be a popular decision, however CentOS can not distribute items for free that have patent costs to use. We can't distribute MP3 and we can't distribute TDS.
We at the CentOS Project respect other peoples IP, copyrights, and patents.
Understood. I had done a license search before looking into this (I thought there might be some reason it wasn't already done), but did not encounter this particular aspect.