Re: LGPL code that includes files licensed under Sun Public License 1.0 - DFSG-free?

2009-08-24 Thread Hendrik Weimer
tony mancill tmanc...@debian.org writes: I'm not saying that they are unchanged in the source distribution of libjxp, but that the upstream author says that the files that were released as part of JavaCC under the SPL license are the same files (meaning they have the same content) as the

Re: LGPL code that includes files licensed under Sun Public License 1.0 - DFSG-free?

2009-08-17 Thread Hendrik Weimer
Tony Mancill tmanc...@debian.org writes: We've requested that the upstream author release a new upstream version with the updated license, and are waiting for his reply. But I wanted to ask the list if that is strictly necessary, given that we know the contents of the files, save for the

Re: LGPL code that includes files licensed under Sun Public License 1.0 - DFSG-free?

2009-08-17 Thread tony mancill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hendrik Weimer wrote: Tony Mancill tmanc...@debian.org writes: We've requested that the upstream author release a new upstream version with the updated license, and are waiting for his reply. But I wanted to ask the list if that is strictly

Re: LGPL code that includes files licensed under Sun Public License 1.0 - DFSG-free?

2009-08-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
tmanc...@debian.org wrote: We've requested that the upstream author release a new upstream version with the updated license, and are waiting for his reply. But I wanted to ask the list if that is strictly necessary, given that we know the contents of the files, save for the license, haven't

Re: LGPL code that includes files licensed under Sun Public License 1.0 - DFSG-free?

2009-08-15 Thread Tony Mancill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hendrik Weimer wrote: Tony Mancill tmanc...@debian.org writes: * The Original Code is JavaCC. The Initial Developer of the Original * Code is Sun Microsystems, Inc. Portions Copyright 1996-2002 Sun * Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Re: LGPL code that includes files licensed under Sun Public License 1.0 - DFSG-free?

2009-08-10 Thread Hendrik Weimer
Tony Mancill tmanc...@debian.org writes: * The Original Code is JavaCC. The Initial Developer of the Original * Code is Sun Microsystems, Inc. Portions Copyright 1996-2002 Sun * Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. JavaCC (https://javacc.dev.java.net/) seems to have been relicensed under

LGPL code that includes files licensed under Sun Public License 1.0 - DFSG-free?

2009-08-09 Thread Tony Mancill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Debian Legal experts: We are trying to determine the licensing status of a new package, libjxp-java, for which most of the source is licensed under the LGPL, but includes 2 (modified) files for which the original license is the Sun Public

Re: LGPL code that includes files licensed under Sun Public License 1.0 - DFSG-free?

2009-08-09 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 10:27:27 -0700 Tony Mancill wrote: [...] We are trying to determine the licensing status of a new package, libjxp-java, for which most of the source is licensed under the LGPL, but includes 2 (modified) files for which the original license is the Sun Public License 1.0.

Re: LGPL code that includes files licensed under Sun Public License 1.0 - DFSG-free?

2009-08-09 Thread tony mancill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Francesco, Thank you for your response. It's interesting to note that this Wikipedia article states that the SPL has been approved by the [FSF] but completely fails to mention the incompatibility with the GPL.