Re: Advice regarding chess engine database files license
Varun Hiremath va...@debian.org The chess tablebase files are generated by the Gaviota Engine whose license is clearly not DFSG compatible. However, the author is releasing the generated database files under the MIT license. Is the MIT license for these database files DFSG compatible? [...] Yes, MIT/X11 is DFSG-compatible and http://www.debian.org/legal/licenses says similar licences are already in the archive. The Gaviota Engine licence shouldn't apply to the database files. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLOutput for a similar topic. Thanks for asking, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/e1ukaj0-0001xa...@bletchley.towers.org.uk
Re: Advice regarding chess engine database files license
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 6:13 PM, MJ Ray wrote: The Gaviota Engine licence shouldn't apply to the database files. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLOutput for a similar topic. Sounds like they should go to contrib though, due to the non-free build-dep? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6GEJhwrmH+1Wa_3CAPfzAT3+pSCtL2j_udNXf=c3a8...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Advice regarding chess engine database files license
Paul Wise p...@debian.org On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 6:13 PM, MJ Ray wrote: The Gaviota Engine licence shouldn't apply to the database files. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLOutput for a similar topic. Sounds like they should go to contrib though, due to the non-free build-dep? If the database files need to be built by the Gaviota Engine, I think. I don't know it well enough to say. Hope that helps, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/e1ukchr-0002un...@bletchley.towers.org.uk
Re: Advice regarding chess engine database files license
Hi! MJ Ray mjr at phonecoop.coop writes: Paul Wise pabs at debian.org On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 6:13 PM, MJ Ray wrote: The Gaviota Engine licence shouldn't apply to the database files. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLOutput for a similar topic. Sounds like they should go to contrib though, due to the non-free build-dep? If the database files need to be built by the Gaviota Engine, I think. I don't know it well enough to say. Hope that helps, Some small database (compressed) files are included in the upstream sources and other larger ones can be downloaded from this site: http://www.olympuschess.com/egtb/gaviota/ So, if we can consider these database files as output files, then I think these are good to go to main. However, if these should be treated as binary files which must be generated from the Gaviota Engine, then these should go to contrib. Can I assume the former and upload these to main? Thanks, Varun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/loom.20130606t044824-...@post.gmane.org
MIT code embedded into GPL-3+ library
Hi, I am working on packaging ccnet[1] library (requirement for seafile), and the upstream code has two licenses in the base directory - MIT and GPL-3+. When I asked for clarification they have replied the code is GPL-3+ with some parts reused from some other project which was MIT licensed. Unfortunatelly the individual source files are not licensed, so it's unclear to me what's the license of the files and the packages as whole. Can you provide a guidance? (It would still need openssl+gpl exception to go in.) Ondřej Surý 1. https://github.com/haiwen/ccnet
