Hello, I was wondering if you could respond to my question ? Are ou going to get the issues sorted out regarding the license texts ?
Best regards, Gerlinde Hulin _____________________________________________ Von: Hulin, Gerlinde (E D EA SOL D TC1) Gesendet: Thursday, March 03, 2011 10:15 AM An: 'popt-devel@rpm5.org' Cc: Hufnagel, Michael (E D EA SOL EN) Betreff: INFO: Popt 1.14 license evaluation - response appreciated Hello, Am doing the liecense clearing for open source components in our department. I did the clearing your component popt1.4. I scanned all files of popt 1.14 for license informations. Unfortunately there are issues regarding the popt licenses. Most of the licenses does not match with the MIT license. Some files are under the GPL (wich is irreversible !), and 2 license informations are not correct. Jef Johnson told me to post to this email in order to get the issues sorted out. On the home page popt is stated as MIT style license http://freshmeat.net/tags/mitx-consortium-license. But here is what I found: 1) Global Licenses MIT style - disclaimer X Consortium for promotion Copyright (c) 1998 Red Hat Software 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, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. 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. 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