2016-07-05 11:45 GMT+02:00 Dave Love <d.l...@liverpool.ac.uk>: > I've realized that the licence for a package I've recently had reviewed > is actually "LBNL BSD" > <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/LBNLBSD>, not BSD3 with a DoE > disclaimer, as I thought. (Mea culpa, but licensecheck didn't spot it.) > > Anyway, I've fixed that, but I can't find any discussion about the > licence. Does anyone know of any past discussion, specifically any > recommendation for dealing with the clause that seems problematic to me > as a potential booby-trap for contributors: > > You are under no obligation whatsoever to provide any bug fixes, patches, or > upgrades to the features, functionality or performance of the source code > ("Enhancements") to anyone; however, if you choose to make your Enhancements > available either publicly, or directly to Lawrence Berkeley National > Laboratory, without imposing a separate written license agreement for such > Enhancements, then you hereby grant the following license: a non-exclusive, > royalty-free perpetual license to install, use, modify, prepare derivative > works, incorporate into other computer software, distribute, and sublicense > such enhancements or derivative works thereof, in binary and source code > form. > > People sending copyright-significant changes probably don't expect to > grant an all-permissive licence (which presumably involves the > possibility of removing copyright notices, for instance), so I wondered > what to do for the "separate written license" to keep contributions > under the basic BSD3 terms. I'm thinking of modifying the COPYING file > to say simply that changes are distributed only under BSD3 terms. > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
Do not change shipped license file from upstream. First, contact the following list: legal AT lists.fedoraproject.org in order to clarify the obscure points. Then, coordinate with upstream to fix licensing upstream if you're requested to. Regards, H. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
