Hi! Am Montag, 7. Mai 2012 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > Hi! > > Alex and I almost finished packaging filebench: > > VCS is at: > > Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/collab-maint/filebench.git > Vcs-Browser: > http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/filebench.git;a=summary > > There is some licensing questions left: > > 1) Most files use: > > * CDDL HEADER START > * > * The contents of this file are subject to the terms of the > * Common Development and Distribution License (the "License"). > * You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. > * > * You can obtain a copy of the license at usr/src/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE > * or http://www.opensolaris.org/os/licensing. > * See the License for the specific language governing permissions > * and limitations under the License. > * > * When distributing Covered Code, include this CDDL HEADER in each > * file and include the License file at usr/src/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE. > * If applicable, add the following below this CDDL HEADER, with the > * fields enclosed by brackets "[]" replaced with your own identifying > * information: Portions Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner] > * > * CDDL HEADER END > > template header. > > Is it safe to assume that this refers to CDDL-1.0 as in: > > http://opensource.org/licenses/CDDL-1.0 > > Well > > http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/download/Main/licensing/cddllicense.txt > > refers to that version of the license as well. So that seems to be the > case. > > Except for this notice: > > NOTICE PURSUANT TO SECTION 9 OF THE COMMON DEVELOPMENT AND DISTRIBUTION > LICENSE (CDDL) > > The OpenSolaris code released under the CDDL shall be governed by the > laws of the State of California (excluding conflict-of-law > provisions). Any litigation relating to this License shall be subject > to the jurisdiction of the Federal Courts of the Northern District of > California and the state courts of the State of California, with venue > lying in Santa Clara County, California. > > > 2) It uses a bison generated parser from parser_gram.y and these > generated files are: > > Files: parser_gram.c parser_gram.h > Copyright: 1984, 1989, 1990, 2000-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > C LALR(1) parser skeleton written by Richard Stallman, by > simplifying the original so-called "semantic" parser. > License: GPL-3+ with exception > This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > […] > You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License > along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/> > . > On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General > Public License version 3 can be found in > "/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3". . > As a special exception, you may create a larger work that contains > part or all of the Bison parser skeleton and distribute that work > under terms of your choice, so long as that work isn't itself a > parser generator using the skeleton or a modified version thereof > as a parser skeleton. Alternatively, if you modify or redistribute > the parser skeleton itself, you may (at your option) remove this > special exception, which will cause the skeleton and the resulting > Bison output files to be licensed under the GNU General Public > License without this special exception. > . > This special exception was added by the Free Software Foundation in > version 2.2 of Bison. > > > Is this compatible with CDDL-1? > > As far as I understand CDDL-1 and GPL are not compatible, but when I > read this special exception correctly, in the case that no new parser > generator is done any terms, any license can be used for the resulting > work. > > Would it make sense to include an URL to the license in the copyright > file? I did not see an extra field in the machine readable file format > description, but I could always include it at the end of the license > text if thats wanted.
Any answer on that one that allows Alex and me to proceed? Thanks, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- 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/201206011338.12181.mar...@lichtvoll.de
