Hi, Allan wrote:
dimension breaker wrote:
the purpose of sending this email is for forking pacman package manager to be a custom file manager with the name we will use. I am as the developer of dracOs linux and columnonggo linux request permission from the Pacman Development Team ... I suggest you contact a lawyer to get advise of what you can and can not do with open source software. No-one here is qualified to give legal advise.
Perhaps the language barrier means the request isn't clear and Purnomo is just being polite in asking first. Purnomo, https://www.archlinux.org/pacman/#_copyright states pacman is licensed under the GNU GPL v2 and its COPYING file at https://git.archlinux.org/pacman.git/tree/ matches that. The lib/libalpm that's also in that source tree, and that you may find useful separately from pacman(1), doesn't have a distinct licence and the comments headers state GNU GPL v2. I am not a lawyer, but I am not aware of anything in the licensing that would prevent you changing the name of the command, e.g. to dracman(1). -- Cheers, Ralph.