passwd license clarification
Hello, per https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing#License_Changes ... the passwd package has contained License: BSD or GPLv2+ however, there is no version 2 or later clause in any of the copyright notices. So I've just updated it to License: BSD or GPL+ and will build this in F18 and rawhide. Mirek -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: passwd license clarification
On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 06:09:52PM +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote: the passwd package has contained License: BSD or GPLv2+ however, there is no version 2 or later clause in any of the copyright notices. So I've just updated it to License: BSD or GPL+ and will build this in F18 and rawhide. From the COPYING file, it looks like the actual intention is to license under a BSD license with an exception for converting to GPL. But, Since the three-clause BSD license is used, it's my understanding that that's not really necessary. Since Red Hat holds the copyright and there do not appear to be any non-Red Hat authors, maybe the best thing to do would be simply to ask if we can relicense this as BSD 2-clause and be done with it? -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ mat...@fedoraproject.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: passwd license clarification
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 06:09:52PM +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote: the passwd package has contained License: BSD or GPLv2+ however, there is no version 2 or later clause in any of the copyright notices. So I've just updated it to License: BSD or GPL+ and will build this in F18 and rawhide. From the COPYING file, it looks like the actual intention is to license under a BSD license with an exception for converting to GPL. But, Since the three-clause BSD license is used, it's my understanding that that's not really necessary. Since Red Hat holds the copyright and there do not appear to be any non-Red Hat authors, maybe the best thing to do would be simply to ask if we can relicense this as BSD 2-clause and be done with it? I want the spec file to not be misleading, but I don't think involving lawyers, only to simplify a license of 1789 lines of code, code that is very liberally licensed in any case, is really worth the effort. Mirek -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: passwd license clarification
On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 07:09:29PM +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote: From the COPYING file, it looks like the actual intention is to license under a BSD license with an exception for converting to GPL. But, Since the three-clause BSD license is used, it's my understanding that that's not really necessary. Since Red Hat holds the copyright and there do not appear to be any non-Red Hat authors, maybe the best thing to do would be simply to ask if we can relicense this as BSD 2-clause and be done with it? I want the spec file to not be misleading, but I don't think involving lawyers, only to simplify a license of 1789 lines of code, code that is very liberally licensed in any case, is really worth the effort. Probably not. :) -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ mat...@fedoraproject.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
