On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 09:11:19AM -0600, Hyrum K. Wright wrote: > In doing the recent license audit work[1], one of the big remaining > sections is packages/, primarily the stuff which is used to build the > MSI installer on Windows. We have several files which include the a > copyright notice attributing them to Microsoft, and upon further > research, they look to be part of the WiX distribution. WiX is an > open source tool released under the CPL[2] which is used to create MSI > packages for Windows. > > Because of this licensing scenario, I don't think we can reasonably > relicense these files[3]. We can still distribute them, probably, but > IANAL. My question is: do we need to distribute packages/ in the > first place, or is that area of our repository just a means for people > working on packaging to version control their scripts and such. > > Any advice on this topic would be appreciated, especially since > clearing up the licensing is an important step toward graduating from > the Incubator.
Just another data point: Virtually all Subversion packages in the non-Windows world are maintained outside of our tree anyway, so nuking packages/ won't do any harm for them. Stefan
