On 02/27/2018 04:23 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 1:41 PM, Richard Fontana <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>     That is possibly the worst-written license I have seen in quite some
>     time, but I actually think it is acceptable for Fedora for the reasons
>     Tom and Eric gave.
> 
> 
> Thanks Richard and Tom! What should I use for the License tag in the RPM?

Use:

License: CPM

> I've sent email to Bryan Sparks asking whether he is still in a position
> of authority to deal with CP/M licensing, and if so, whether he might
> grant a license under a common open source license; I suggested possibly
> BSD 2-clause.  However, I have no idea whether the email address I found
> for him will actually work.

Oh man, that will be a fun one. It seems that Lineo was the last known
owner of the CP/M copyright (Digital Research -> Novell -> Caldera ->
Lineo), but Lineo was carved up and its assets went all over the place.
I _think_ the most likely place is with DrDOS Inc. (formerly
DeviceLogics), where Bryan Sparks is the current CEO (afaik).
http://drdos.com/company/namagement/

> In the mean time, I'm intending to package "z80pack" for Fedora. That
> includes emulation of various 8080 and Z80 systems. There are various
> disk images included. I'll put the CP/M images in a subpackage. I think
> there may be licensing issues with some of the other disk images, so I
> may have to produce a cleaned source tarball that omits those.

Yeah, be careful, but that sounds right.

~tom
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