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. -- - Kevan Benson - A-1 Networks