Re: Updating the PHP license

2024-05-25 Thread Ben Ramsey
> On May 25, 2024, at 10:03, Francesco Poli wrote: > > Some minor nitpicks (once again, by a non-native speaker, so they could > be wrong...): it's not the PHP License, version 4.0, which adopts the > 3-clause BSD license; it's the PHP Group which adopts the 3-clause BSD >

Re: Updating the PHP license

2024-05-25 Thread Francesco Poli
;> Please let me know if you have any feedback on these changes. > > > > After a short review, they look OK to me. > > > > The only thing that I would emphasize more is: the PHP License, version > > 4.0 should not just have the text identical to the 3-clause BSD &

Re: Updating the PHP license

2024-05-23 Thread Ben Ramsey
diff of the changes here: >> >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php_license_update?do=diff%5B0%5D=1716433712%5B1%5D=1716437291=sidebyside >> >> >> Please let me know if you have any feedback on these changes. > > After a short review, they look OK to me. > > The

Re: Updating the PHP license

2024-05-23 Thread Francesco Poli
33712%5B1%5D=1716437291=sidebyside > > > Please let me know if you have any feedback on these changes. After a short review, they look OK to me. The only thing that I would emphasize more is: the PHP License, version 4.0 should not just have the text identical to the 3-clause BSD license,

Re: Updating the PHP license

2024-05-22 Thread Ben Ramsey
> On May 21, 2024, at 19:58, Ben Ramsey wrote: > > This is something that didn’t cross my mind while I was putting together the > RFC, so I’m glad I posted to this list. > > Thank you for the suggestions! I’ll update the RFC and will reply here when > I’ve made the changes. I’ve updated the

Re: Updating the PHP license

2024-05-21 Thread Ben Ramsey
> On May 21, 2024, at 16:32, Francesco Poli wrote: > > On Sun, 19 May 2024 14:53:48 -0500 Ben Ramsey wrote: > >> On May 19, 2024, at 11:42, Francesco Poli wrote: > [...] >>> If the PHP Group decides to elect the 3-clause BSD license as the next >>> versio

Re: Updating the PHP license

2024-05-21 Thread Ben Ramsey
> On May 21, 2024, at 11:49, Richard Laager wrote: > > On 2024-05-19 14:53, Ben Ramsey wrote: >> One of my goals with the RFC is to get rid of the idea of a “PHP License,” >> so it deprecates the PHP License and *replaces* it with the BSD 3-Clause >> License. I do

Re: Updating the PHP license

2024-05-21 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 19 May 2024 14:53:48 -0500 Ben Ramsey wrote: > On May 19, 2024, at 11:42, Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > > If the PHP Group decides to elect the 3-clause BSD license as the next > > version (4.0) of the PHP License, then clause 5 of the PHP License version > > 3.01

Re: Updating the PHP license

2024-05-21 Thread Richard Laager
On 2024-05-19 14:53, Ben Ramsey wrote: One of my goals with the RFC is to get rid of the idea of a “PHP License,” so it deprecates the PHP License and *replaces* it with the BSD 3-Clause License. I don’t want there to be a “PHP License, version 4.0.” I think that will continue to cause

Re: Updating the PHP license

2024-05-19 Thread Ben Ramsey
> On May 19, 2024, at 11:42, Francesco Poli wrote: > > Here's some feedback about version 0.3 of your RFC. > >> The proposed changes for the PHP software repository will not affect >> the PHP Manual. The PHP Manual will remain licensed under the Creative >> C

Re: Updating the PHP license

2024-05-19 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 18 May 2024 15:18:36 -0500 Ben Ramsey wrote: > Hi, all! Hello Ben! > > Over the years, the open source community, including Debian, has had > a few lengthy discussions and disagreements regarding the PHP > license.[^1][^2][^3] The TL;DR sentiment of all these discus

Re: Updating the PHP license

2024-05-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 03:18:36PM -0500, Ben Ramsey wrote: > Hi, all! > > Over the years, the open source community, including Debian, has had a few > lengthy discussions and disagreements regarding the PHP license.[^1][^2][^3] > The TL;DR sentiment of all these discussions amo

Updating the PHP license

2024-05-18 Thread Ben Ramsey
Hi, all! Over the years, the open source community, including Debian, has had a few lengthy discussions and disagreements regarding the PHP license.[^1][^2][^3] The TL;DR sentiment of all these discussions amounts to: change the license to something well-understood and less problematic. So

Files with unknown license

2024-04-06 Thread Håvard F . Aasen
Hi, Currently coinutils [1] is shipping files in '/usr/share/coin/Data/Samples/', this has been going on for the entire lifetime of the package, since June 2008. During this time the files has been assumed to retain the license of the rest of the package, EPL-1. Upstream has done some changes

Re: FreeSWITCH license analysis

2024-02-15 Thread Richard Laager
in this particular case. That said, the _ideal_ situation would be for the copyright holder to explicitly clarify the situation. My recommendation would be: Best: Change the make_*.c files to be LGPL. Good: Change the make_*.c files to put some permissive license grant into the files. This is the gcc/autoconf

FreeSWITCH license analysis

2024-02-15 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! At work we have been checking whether switching to FreeSWITCH would be feasible, with an eye to eventually help package and/or maintain it in Debian (as part of <https://bugs.debian.org/389591>). One of the points was doing a license audit. For context, because FreeSWITCH is licensed

Re: License violations for dependencies of Rust and Go programs?

2023-10-07 Thread Florian Weimer
* John Thorvald Wodder, II: > It is my understanding that when an executable program that depends (directly > or indirectly) on libraries licensed under (picking one license here) the MIT > license is compiled into a binary that statically links these libraries, and >

Re: License violations for dependencies of Rust and Go programs?

2023-09-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2023-09-27 at 10:41 -0400, John Thorvald Wodder II wrote: > So was this problem previously known but under-acknowledged, or was it simply > not brought up before now?  I find it surprising that Debian would allow so > many license violations to get this far.  Is fixing th

Re: License violations for dependencies of Rust and Go programs?

2023-09-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2023-09-27 at 11:03 -0400, John Thorvald Wodder II wrote: > On further inspection, it turns out that bat itself compiles the text > of its NOTICE file into the binary, and the text is displayed when > running `batcat --acknowledgements`, so bat's Apache 2.0 license is > be

Re: License violations for dependencies of Rust and Go programs?

2023-09-27 Thread Mihai Moldovan
* On 9/27/23 21:10, Sam Hartman wrote: >> "Mihai" == Mihai Moldovan writes: > > Mihai> In this case, we're "just" talking about missing notices for > Mihai> dependencies that are pulled in, which might not be nice, but > Mihai> also, realistically, nobody would really care about

Re: License violations for dependencies of Rust and Go programs?

2023-09-27 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Mihai" == Mihai Moldovan writes: Mihai> In this case, we're "just" talking about missing notices for Mihai> dependencies that are pulled in, which might not be nice, but Mihai> also, realistically, nobody would really care about or try to Mihai> enforce it (unless somebody

Re: License violations for dependencies of Rust and Go programs?

2023-09-27 Thread Mihai Moldovan
dated the wiki page to link to it. >> >> https://wiki.debian.org/StaticLinking > > So was this problem previously known but under-acknowledged, or was it simply > not brought up before now? I find it surprising that Debian would allow so > many license violations to get this

Re: License violations for dependencies of Rust and Go programs?

2023-09-27 Thread John Thorvald Wodder II
have requested that > the ftp-master team turn on auto-rejections for the lintian tag. On further inspection, it turns out that bat itself compiles the text of its NOTICE file into the binary, and the text is displayed when running `batcat --acknowledgements`, so bat's Apache 2.0 license is bein

Re: License violations for dependencies of Rust and Go programs?

2023-09-27 Thread John Thorvald Wodder II
/StaticLinking So was this problem previously known but under-acknowledged, or was it simply not brought up before now? I find it surprising that Debian would allow so many license violations to get this far. Is fixing the tooling to handle this considered a priority? If the author of an uncredit

Re: License violations for dependencies of Rust and Go programs?

2023-09-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2023-09-27 at 05:24 +, Stephan Verbücheln wrote: > Are the upstream developers not already legally required to include all > this information into various places including their “Help-About” menu? It is definitely not common practice to document the copyright/licens

Re: License violations for dependencies of Rust and Go programs?

2023-09-26 Thread Stephan Verbücheln
On Wed, 2023-09-27 at 08:36 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > This more general problem is very hard to impossible to solve, > since it would mean patching every single build toolchain and > source package [...] Are the upstream developers not already legally required to include all this information into

Re: License violations for dependencies of Rust and Go programs?

2023-09-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2023-09-26 at 14:20 -0400, John Thorvald Wodder II wrote: > - bat (In addition to the type of problem discussed above, the source code for >   bat has an Apache 2.0 `NOTICE` file, yet this is not included in the .deb >   package.) Please file a severity serious bug report against bat

Re: License violations for dependencies of Rust and Go programs?

2023-09-26 Thread Paul Wise
copyright and license of source files we distribute but does not trace the path from source files to compiled files, and therefore does not trace which source files each generated file was created from and as a subset of that problem, does therefore not trace the flow of copyright and license information

Re: Bug#903999: RFC about DFSG-freeness of PHP license [Re: Bug#903999: ITP: php-doc -- Documentation for PHP]

2023-09-26 Thread Sergio Durigan Junior
with Athos that we should extend the Lintian warning. 3) Ultimately, it is the ftp-master's job to determine whether php-doc's license is suitable for Debian or not. I don't think it's necessary/beneficial to extend this discussion here. Having said that, I will review and sponsor the package

License violations for dependencies of Rust and Go programs?

2023-09-26 Thread John Thorvald Wodder II
I am a concerned citizen who, while looking into prior art for handling dependency licenses in order to inform some of my own projects, stumbled upon what appear to be systemic license violations in the Debian repositories regarding dependencies of statically-linked compiled binary programs

Re: mini-httpd NCSA license

2023-07-02 Thread Richard Laager
? Figure out (from the history of the code, etc.) if that license applies. Looking into this a bit, I found this repository (which I am _assuming_, but have not verified, is a faithful import of NCSA httpd): https://github.com/TooDumbForAName/ncsa-httpd/ I definitely see some code from mini-httpd's

mini-httpd NCSA license

2023-07-02 Thread Alexandru Mihail
Dear debian-legal, I would like to better sum up my earlier question as follows: I'm in the process of adopting the mini-httpd package. mini-httpd contains early portions of code commited by Rob McCool which seem to originate from NCSA httpd. (License: https://web.archive.org/web/20060830015540

Re: Nethack General Public License

2023-06-30 Thread MJ Ray
Le 28 juin 2023 16:25:09 GMT+01:00, Joshua Allen a écrit : >Dear Debian Legal, > >I was going through the Nethack General Public License and even though it is a >free software license obviously not compatible with the GNU GPL, how do you >maintain it without calling it netha

Nethack General Public License

2023-06-28 Thread Joshua Allen
Dear Debian Legal, I was going through the Nethack General Public License and even though it is a free software license obviously not compatible with the GNU GPL, how do you maintain it without calling it nethack though since the only official nethack releases can be called nethack. If you

Re: advice on non-free NXP Software License Agreement

2023-06-22 Thread Sam Hartman
ual lawyer review has how shall we say been variable for a variety of factors. Johannes> The non-free binary blobs covered by this license apply to Johannes> popular platforms like the IMX8MQ (which is used by the Johannes> purism librem5 phone and the mnt reform laptop) as we

Re: advice on non-free NXP Software License Agreement

2023-06-22 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Sam Hartman (2023-06-22 16:46:51) > >>>>> "Johannes" == Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues > >>>>> writes: > > Johannes> Dear Debian legal, I seek advice on the NXP Software > Johannes> License Ag

Re: Expat license and "free for academic users"

2023-06-22 Thread Andrius Merkys
Hi all, Thank you for your prompt responses. On 2023-06-22 17:49, Sam Hartman wrote: I mean under xpat, it's certainly free for academic users, and it's also free for everyone else. Unless that statement in the readme is in a section called license or otherwise claims to be a license, I'd

Re: Expat license and "free for academic users"

2023-06-22 Thread Sam Hartman
gt; "EvoEF2 is free to academic users." Andrius> To me such limitation seems to contradict the Expat Andrius> license, but I wonder what is the legal opinion about such Andrius> combination. I know that I can always ask the upstream for Andrius> clarification which I did

Re: advice on non-free NXP Software License Agreement

2023-06-22 Thread Sam Hartman
>>>>> "Johannes" == Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues writes: Johannes> Dear Debian legal, I seek advice on the NXP Software Johannes> License Agreement and whether binaries licensed under it Johannes> are redistributable in non-free(-firmware) o

mini-httpd NCSA license concerns

2023-06-22 Thread Alexandru Mihail
contributions do not specify a license for his work. I've worked a bit and found the original NCSA httpd license from the 90s (I'll post it here to spare you the work). We have concerns about the current situation and DFSG compatibility. Nicholas( my mentor) stated that apache2 might be in the same

advice on non-free NXP Software License Agreement

2023-06-21 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Dear Debian legal, I seek advice on the NXP Software License Agreement and whether binaries licensed under it are redistributable in non-free(-firmware) or not. The full text is at the end of this email. I think the interesting parts are in 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3. If I'm reading this correctly

Re: Expat license and "free for academic users"

2023-06-20 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
; >> "EvoEF2 is free to academic users." >> >> To me such limitation seems to contradict the Expat license, but I >> wonder what is the legal opinion about such combination. I know that I >> can always ask the upstream for clarification which I did earlier when

Re: Expat license and "free for academic users"

2023-06-20 Thread Francesco Poli
o academic users." > > To me such limitation seems to contradict the Expat license, but I > wonder what is the legal opinion about such combination. I know that I > can always ask the upstream for clarification which I did earlier when > the restriction was: > > "...

Expat license and "free for academic users"

2023-06-20 Thread Andrius Merkys
Hello, [Please keep me in CC, I am not subscribed] I encountered a package EvoEF2 [1] which is licensed under Expat and has the following in its README.md: "EvoEF2 is free to academic users." To me such limitation seems to contradict the Expat license, but I wonder what is

Re: Re: Maxmind GeoIP/Geolite license change

2023-05-10 Thread James Repsel
I have change license and I P because I'm the true Copyright and intellectual property and patent holder

Re: Is GeneralUser soundfont's license suitable for Debian main?

2023-03-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2023-03-23 at 14:13 +0300, undef wrote: > Also I found this soundfont in the existing Debian package minuet-data by path > /usr/share/minuet/soundfonts/GeneralUser-v1.47.sf2. [1] I suggest you bring this to the attention of minuet-data upstream and also file a bug about it in Debian if

Re: Is GeneralUser soundfont's license suitable for Debian main?

2023-03-23 Thread undef
I don't think this license would pass ftp-master review, there is too much uncertainty about the provenance and license of the samples. Thank you for the answer. Also I found this soundfont in the existing Debian package minuet-data by path /usr/share/minuet/soundfonts/GeneralUser-v1.47.sf2

Re: Is GeneralUser soundfont's license suitable for Debian main?

2023-03-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2023-03-22 at 23:47 +0300, undef wrote: > ** License of the complete work ** > You may use GeneralUser GS without restriction for your own music > creation, private or commercial.  This SoundFont bank is provided to the > community free of charge.  Please feel free to us

Is GeneralUser soundfont's license suitable for Debian main?

2023-03-22 Thread undef
Hello. GeneralUser GS [1] is a SoundFont bank for playing MIDI files. Its license contains such sentences: --- ** License of the complete work ** You may use GeneralUser GS without restriction for your own music creation, private or commercial.  This SoundFont bank is provided

v2ray geoip data has problemic license

2023-02-20 Thread linsui
Hi, V2Fly project provides a geoip data file in https://github.com/v2fly/geoip. The license is declared as CC-BY-SA-4.0 but it uses the data from GeoLite2, which is licensed under an EULA https://www.maxmind.com/en/geolite2/eula. The EULA looks like not a free license. Debian packages

Re: RFC about DFSG-freeness of PHP license [Re: Bug#903999: ITP: php-doc -- Documentation for PHP]

2023-01-29 Thread Athos Ribeiro
before. Do you mean the PHP-3.0[-only] issue: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/license-problem-php-license which appears to be the same as the PHP-3.1[-or-greater?] issue? https://ftp-master.debian.org/php-license.html Is the problem you're referring appears to be that this license places

Re: Bug#1029055: Debian Expat and SPDX MIT License Text

2023-01-18 Thread Soren Stoutner
Thanks Richard. I was unaware of the XML versions. So, this would mean that SPDX considers what Debian calls the MIT (Expat) license to match what SPDX calls MIT because the differences are all either considered by SPDX to be omittable or replaceable as demonstrated by the tags in the XML

Re: Bug#1029055: Debian Expat and SPDX MIT License Text

2023-01-18 Thread Richard Fontana
On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 2:06 AM Axel Beckert wrote: > > Hi, > > Soren Stoutner wrote: > > There appears to be some question of opinion > > Not opinion. Just the point of what the meaning of _text colors_ > *rollingeyes* in a license do mean. I just ignored them an

Re: Bug#1029055: Debian Expat and SPDX MIT License Text

2023-01-16 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Soren Stoutner wrote: > There appears to be some question of opinion Not opinion. Just the point of what the meaning of _text colors_ *rollingeyes* in a license do mean. I just ignored them and then those two licenses differ. > as to if the Debian MIT (Expat) License is >

Re: Bug#1029055: Debian Expat and SPDX MIT License Text

2023-01-16 Thread Soren Stoutner
SPDX itself might have an answer that is satisfactory: "The original replaceable text appears on the SPDX License List webpage in red text." "Omittable text appears on the SPDX License List webpage in blue text." https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/v2.3/license-matching-guid

Re: Bug#1029055: Debian Expat and SPDX MIT License Text

2023-01-16 Thread Soren Stoutner
There appears to be some question of opinion as to if the Debian MIT (Expat) License is the same as the SPDX MIT License. https://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/mit[1] https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html[2] Can somebody at Debian Legal please comment? -- Soren Stoutner so...@stoutner.com

Re: Bug#819332: License question about sf2 soundfont in Tuxguitar

2023-01-16 Thread tony mancill
ll either sponsor an upload > if everything looks good or provide feedback. The update looks great! I have updated debian/copyright to document the files that are licensed under a license other than the LGPL, but otherwise everything looks good. I will upload today. For the time-being, I will

Re: Bug#819332: License question about sf2 soundfont in Tuxguitar

2023-01-16 Thread tony mancill
On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 10:02:55PM +0100, Helmar Gerloni wrote: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2023/01/msg5.html > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2023/01/msg00097.html > Roberto, Tobias, thanks for your answers. > > I have removed MagicSFver2.sf2 from the package and

Re: License question about sf2 soundfont in Tuxguitar

2023-01-15 Thread Helmar Gerloni
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2023/01/msg5.html > https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2023/01/msg00097.html Roberto, Tobias, thanks for your answers. I have removed MagicSFver2.sf2 from the package and added a note to README.Debian. The new package now depends on

Re: License question about sf2 soundfont in Tuxguitar

2023-01-14 Thread Roberto
>From my personal experience of 15+ years contacting with authors of thousands of "free" sound fonts: they are usually composed of sounds taken from random places, and nobody really knows who made them or what their license are. Many of them take samples from other "free"

License question about sf2 soundfont in Tuxguitar

2023-01-14 Thread Helmar Gerloni
Hello legal team, I am trying to update the Tuxguitar package from version 1.2 to 1.5.6. The new version includes the soundfont "Magic Sound Font v2.0". While Tuxguitar is licensed under LGPL-2.1+, the license of the soundfont file (MagicSFver2.sf2) is not 100% clear. The issue was

RFC about DFSG-freeness of PHP license [Re: Bug#903999: ITP: php-doc -- Documentation for PHP]

2023-01-08 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
gt;>https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#reintroducing-pkgs > > Hi Paul, Thanks for the pointers. > > While I am working on packaging details, I still want to make sure it is > OK to re-introduce the package due to the PHP-3.0 issues I pointed > before. &

Fwd: License question virtualbox-ext-pack vs. virtualbox-guest-additions-iso

2022-11-11 Thread Christian Kuka
: License question virtualbox-ext-pack vs. virtualbox-guest-additions-iso Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 13:54:01 +0100 From: Christian Kuka To: team+debian-virtual...@tracker.debian.org Hi all, In our team we just came across the question which license apply to the virtualbox debian packages

Re: Technical requirements for upstream license specification

2022-10-20 Thread Marcin Owsiany
czw., 20 paź 2022 o 01:53 Michael Lustfield napisał(a): > (forgive the phone formatting) > > This project is clearly stating that the intended license is GPLv2+. It > might be specified in just the one file, but that file is also clearly > intended to represent the project

Re: Technical requirements for upstream license specification

2022-10-19 Thread Michael Lustfield
(forgive the phone formatting) This project is clearly stating that the intended license is GPLv2+. It might be specified in just the one file, but that file is also clearly intended to represent the project. It's fine as-is, but still worth chatting with upstream. The "LICENSE&

Technical requirements for upstream license specification

2022-10-19 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Hello, I'd like to package [1] a program which is GPLv2+ licensed, but as far as I can tell, this fact is only stated in a couple [2] of [3] lines of its setup.py build script. This is a bit of an obscure way to state the license for my taste. However before I bother the upstream maintainer about

Re: GeForce nvidia driver license for commerical use?

2022-10-03 Thread Roberto A. Foglietta
Il giorno lun 3 ott 2022 alle ore 21:50 Simon McVittie ha scritto: > > On Mon, 03 Oct 2022 at 21:12:50 +0200, Roberto A. Foglietta wrote: > > Are you referring to the special permission given by e-mail by Donald Randall > > in 2003? > > I think you're misreading the copyright file. Randall Donald

Re: GeForce nvidia driver license for commerical use?

2022-10-03 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 03 Oct 2022 at 21:12:50 +0200, Roberto A. Foglietta wrote: > Are you referring to the special permission given by e-mail by Donald Randall > in 2003? I think you're misreading the copyright file. Randall Donald is a Debian contributor who asked Nvidia for permission to redistribute their

Re: GeForce nvidia driver license for commerical use?

2022-10-03 Thread Roberto A. Foglietta
Il giorno lun 3 ott 2022 alle ore 20:42 Simon McVittie ha scritto: > On Mon, 03 Oct 2022 at 19:52:23 +0200, Roberto A. Foglietta wrote: > > reading this link here below, it seems that compilation and repackaging > the > > content is prohibited by their license. W

Re: GeForce nvidia driver license for commerical use?

2022-10-03 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 03 Oct 2022 at 19:52:23 +0200, Roberto A. Foglietta wrote: >  reading this link here below, it seems that compilation and repackaging the > content is prohibited by their license. What's your opinion on this? Please note that the Debian maintainers of nvidia-graphics-drivers have re

GeForce nvidia driver license for commerical use?

2022-10-03 Thread Roberto A. Foglietta
Hi all, reading this link here below, it seems that compilation and repackaging the content is prohibited by their license. What's your opinion on this? https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/10082/geforce-nvidia-driver-license-for-commerical-use In fact, up today (515.76) the .run

Re: FreeBSD legacy license with restrictions on copyright notice placement

2022-09-16 Thread Richard Fontana
he > Richard> file" is consistent with the DFSG. This is one of a variety > Richard> of 1990s FreeBSD 3-clause BSD variants with such a feature. > > Well, under DFSG 4, the license could have required that no > modifications be made to the source file at all: > &g

Re: FreeBSD legacy license with restrictions on copyright notice placement

2022-09-16 Thread Sam Hartman
of a variety Richard> of 1990s FreeBSD 3-clause BSD variants with such a feature. Well, under DFSG 4, the license could have required that no modifications be made to the source file at all: >4. Integrity of The Author's Source Code > The license may restrict source-code

FreeBSD legacy license with restrictions on copyright notice placement

2022-09-16 Thread Richard Fontana
Greetings debian-legal! I understand Debian includes the package libbsd in Debian main. This package includes a man page with the following license (see https://git.hadrons.org/cgit/debian/pkgs/libbsd.git/tree/debian/copyright#n214) License: BSD-5-clause-Peter-Wemm Redistribution and use

Re: Nmap Public Source License Version 0.94 - Is it DFSG-compliant?

2022-09-10 Thread Florian Weimer
* Sam Hartman: >>>>>> "Francesco" == Francesco Poli writes: > Francesco> I am under the impression that a more correct way to > Francesco> achieve the same results (free or non-free) would be to > Francesco> create a different licens

Re: Nmap Public Source License Version 0.94 - Is it DFSG-compliant?

2022-09-09 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 08 Sep 2022 23:32:34 -0600 Sam Hartman wrote: [...] > That's certainly what the FSF would prefer you do, yes. > However, there are a few things to consider: > > 1) It's not clear that the FSF's copyright on the GPL allows you to > borrow text from it for your license. I

Re: Nmap Public Source License Version 0.94 - Is it DFSG-compliant?

2022-09-08 Thread Sam Hartman
>>>>> "Francesco" == Francesco Poli writes: Francesco> I am under the impression that a more correct way to Francesco> achieve the same results (free or non-free) would be to Francesco> create a different license, possibly reusing some part

Re: Nmap Public Source License Version 0.94 - Is it DFSG-compliant?

2022-09-08 Thread Francesco Poli
t; Francesco> That does not seem a correct way to apply the GPL... > > No, it does not. That term--the term that forbids you from adding > restrictions--clearly conflicts with the "main body of the license," so > the main body of the license rather than the GPL con

Re: Nmap Public Source License Version 0.94 - Is it DFSG-compliant?

2022-09-08 Thread Hilko Bengen
k-related packages - OCS iventory - OpenVAS - nikto - brutespray - 2 Python libraries - 1 Perl library - 1 Golang library > The DFSG item 9 is also more about contamination by means of > distribution other than interaction between the tools, as it says: > "The license must not place res

Re: Nmap Public Source License Version 0.94 - Is it DFSG-compliant?

2022-09-08 Thread Sam Hartman
it does not. That term--the term that forbids you from adding restrictions--clearly conflicts with the "main body of the license," so the main body of the license rather than the GPL controls. Clearly such a license is not GPL compatible, although it may be free. Other discussion in

Re: Nmap Public Source License Version 0.94 - Is it DFSG-compliant?

2022-09-07 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 04 Sep 2022 20:29:24 -0700 Walter Landry wrote: [...] > Covered Software is licensed to you under the terms of the GPL > (Exhibit A), with all the exceptions, clarifications, and additions > noted in this Main License Body. Where the terms in this Main License > Body conflic

Re: Nmap Public Source License Version 0.94 - Is it DFSG-compliant?

2022-09-07 Thread Francesco Poli
On Mon, 05 Sep 2022 23:48:38 +0200 Hilko Bengen wrote: [...] > It has been suggested that upstream switch the > license to AGPL3 instead, but nothing of the sort has happened and I > don't expect such a change to happen anytime soon. [...] Speaking for myself: please, no. Althoug

Re: Nmap Public Source License Version 0.94 - Is it DFSG-compliant?

2022-09-06 Thread Samuel Henrique
between the tools, as it says: "The license must not place restrictions on other software that is distributed along with the licensed software. For example, the license must not insist that all other programs distributed on the same medium must be free software." Considering both things, I'm

Re: Nmap Public Source License Version 0.94 - Is it DFSG-compliant?

2022-09-06 Thread Samuel Henrique
Hello all, On Mon, 5 Sept 2022 at 23:17, Hilko Bengen wrote: > My analysis posted there in March 2021 still stands: Upstream's broad > definition about what constitutes a "derivative work" (a term that > matters a lot in GPL 2) conflicts with the DFSG #9 "License Must

Re: Nmap Public Source License Version 0.94 - Is it DFSG-compliant?

2022-09-05 Thread Hilko Bengen
* Samuel Henrique: > Nmap has just released its version 7.93, and it comes with a new > license, similar to what it used to be, but it raised people's > attention so the license got more scrutiny than ever and that resulted > in long threads with no broad consensus. nmap 7.90 wi

Re: Nmap Public Source License Version 0.94 - Is it DFSG-compliant?

2022-09-04 Thread Walter Landry
Samuel Henrique writes: > Nmap has just released its version 7.93, and it comes with a new > license, similar to what it used to be, but it raised people's > attention so the license got more scrutiny than ever and that resulted > in long threads with no broad consensus. For the

Nmap Public Source License Version 0.94 - Is it DFSG-compliant?

2022-09-04 Thread Samuel Henrique
Nmap has just released its version 7.93, and it comes with a new license, similar to what it used to be, but it raised people's attention so the license got more scrutiny than ever and that resulted in long threads with no broad consensus. There have been lots of discussions going on about

Re: Microsoft Public License DFSG compatibility

2022-08-26 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 20 Aug 2022 00:42:39 -0400 Ben Westover wrote: > Hello, Hi! > > I was going to package some software that has portions licensed under > the Microsoft Public License. Is it copatible with the DFSG? A quick > search yielded no results. There seems to be an [old thread]

Re: Microsoft Public License DFSG compatibility

2022-08-25 Thread Sebastian Crane
Dear Ben, The MS-PL is an open source license as approved by the Open Source Initiative: https://opensource.org/licenses/MS-PL Given that fact, as well as my own understanding of the license, I would strongly suspect that this is DFSG-compatible. Please note that I am not yet a DD, though

Re: Microsoft Public License DFSG compatibility

2022-08-25 Thread Sam Hartman
>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Westover writes: Ben> Hello, I was going to package some software that has portions Ben> licensed under the Microsoft Public License. Is it copatible Ben> with the DFSG? A quick search yielded no results. Below is the Ben> f

Microsoft Public License DFSG compatibility

2022-08-19 Thread Ben Westover
Hello, I was going to package some software that has portions licensed under the Microsoft Public License. Is it copatible with the DFSG? A quick search yielded no results. Below is the full text of the license. Thanks, -- Ben Westover This license governs use of the accompanying software

Re: Need license clarification

2022-07-30 Thread Dima Kogan
Paul Wise writes: > Looking at the DFSG, I can't think of any conflicts between the items > in it and this custom license clause. > > https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines > > All that said, this is license proliferation, which isn't really good, > so you m

Re: Need license clarification

2022-07-30 Thread Paul Wise
s might be optional, since the verbatim BSD sections use "must" for the mandatory parts. The GPL has similar requirements for notices of modification. On Sat, 2022-07-30 at 12:40 -0700, Dima Kogan wrote: > The leading sections are just a vanilla 3-clause BSD license, but the > last p

Need license clarification

2022-07-30 Thread Dima Kogan
Hi. I'm currently packaging the geogram project: https://github.com/BrunoLevy/geogram It looks like most of it is distributed under a modified 3-clause BSD license: Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following

Re: Expat-like license - DFSG-ok?

2022-07-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2022-07-15 at 18:08 +0200, Julien Puydt wrote: > * This copyright and license shall be included in all copies or > substantial portions of the Software. > > and the last line worries me a little: is it a DFSG-ok license? > I prefer asking around since I'm not rea

Re: Expat-like license - DFSG-ok?

2022-07-15 Thread Yadd
Hi, Looks OK for me, Apache 2 license also requires NOTICE file to be included in all copies if exists and there is no other restrictions. Cheers, Yadd Le 15 juillet 2022 18:08:53 GMT+02:00, julien.pu...@gmail.com a écrit : >Hi, > >I'm interested in packaging UniMath, which has the

Expat-like license - DFSG-ok?

2022-07-15 Thread julien . puydt
Hi, I'm interested in packaging UniMath, which has the following specific license: UniMath copyright and license = UniMath consists of the files in the UniMath github repository at https://github.com/UniMath/UniMath . UniMath is copyright 2015 by the UniMath

Re: a quick review of the timescaledb license

2022-06-07 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 07 Jun 2022 12:11:11 -0400 Antoine Beaupré wrote: [...] > Okay, so what's in that `tsl/` folder? there you have *another* LICENSE > file which is a custom license written specifically (presumably by > lawyers) for timescaleDB: > > https://github.com/timescale/t

Re: a quick review of the timescaledb license

2022-06-07 Thread Sebastian Crane
Dear Antoine, > It was pointed out to me that TimescaleDB has a "open core" model and > it's actually possible to build an "apache-2.0-only" version of the > program. Yup, it looks like all files in the tsl/ directory are governed by the proprietary license, an

Re: a quick review of the timescaledb license

2022-06-07 Thread Antoine Beaupré
It was pointed out to me that TimescaleDB has a "open core" model and it's actually possible to build an "apache-2.0-only" version of the program. The differences between the two are here: https://docs.timescale.com/timescaledb/latest/timescaledb-edition-comparison/ ... and guix actually made a

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