On 29.09.2011 15:15, Rob Weir wrote:
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
<orwittm...@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hi,
the low-hanging fruits are hanging quite high ;-)
Thus, as given at [1], we can get file ksc5601.h from [2] under a Apache
permissive license.
Unfortunately, the provided file [3] does not contain a license or copyright
header. But a copyright file [4] exists at the same location as ksc5601.h
which contains the copyright and license not only for ksc5601.h, but for all
files at [2]
OK. So [4] is a permissive license for all files in the directory.
This may seen odd, coming from the FSF, but they encourage this is
some cases, such as when the code is very small, or where the code
promotes the use of an open standard that competes against a
proprietary standard.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.html
My proposal to go ahead is:
- copy the following contents of the copyright file [4] into the downloaded
ksc5601.h file
<contents from copyright file [4] to be copied into new ksc5601.h file>
The Apache practice is documented here. Look under "Treatment of
Third-Party Works".
http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html
One of the steps says, "Do ensure that every third-party work includes
its associated license, even if that requires adding a copy of the
license from the third-party download site into the distribution."
It is not clear to me how we apply that step in this case:
1) Do we copy that license file into the same directory as ksc5601.h?
But the license is written very poorly, "This notice applies to the
files in this directory". We might have it in a directory that has
other files that were not originally in the same directory. This
seems like a bad idea.
2) Do we add the license to the specific files that we've copied?
That is your proposal.
3) Or do we not touch the original file, but simple put the license
text in our NOTICE.txt
Maybe best is #2, but also put a comment in the source code where you
document the provenance of the file, giving the facts you gave above:
that the file is from this URL, that the license is in this other
file, and the text of the license is as follows, etc.
Thanks for the input.
Adding the URL for the origin of the copyright and license text is a
good idea. I will add it and use it also to point to the origin of
ksc5601.h.
As Pedro researched the files are also found at
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/tree/src/xlibi18n/lcUniConv
I will use this URL as the origin.
Best regards, Oliver.
Copyright (c) 1999-2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to
deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the
rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or
sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
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LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS
IN THE SOFTWARE.
</contents from copyright file to be copied into new ksc5601.h file>
- replace the current ksc5601.h be the one created by the first step.
- adjust dependencies of our source code on ksc5601.h accordingly, if
needed.
- add a corresponding statement in the NOTICE that parts of the source code
are on the copyright from Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Is this ok and conform to Apache regarding 3rd party licenses?
Best regards, Oliver.
[1]
http://ooo-wiki.apache.org/wiki/ApacheMigration#A_header_from_GNU_c_library_.28solved.29
[2] http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/lib/X11/lcUniConv/#dirlist
[3]
http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/*checkout*/xc/lib/X11/lcUniConv/ksc5601.h?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain
[4]
http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/*checkout*/xc/lib/X11/lcUniConv/COPYRIGHT?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain
