[Box Backup] Box Backup licensing

Chris Wilson chris at qwirx.com
Thu Jan 14 23:27:00 GMT 2010


Hi Stewart,

On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Stewart Adam wrote:

> I recently tried to get Box Backup into Fedora and I found out after a 
> review from the Fedora legal team that the Box Backup license is 
> considered nonfree (comment #6):
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=513320
>
> I was wondering if Chris & the other Box Backup developers would 
> consider making the minor change mentioned in the bug comment so that it 
> can be entered into the Fedora repositories and more importantly, to 
> remove the GPL incompatibility.

I'd like to, but it's not up to me as I'm not the copyright holder. Ben 
would have to agree to it.

Cheers, Chris.
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