Bugs item #3304584, was opened at 2011-05-19 15:04 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by shammash You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=611248&aid=3304584&group_id=95403
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 7 Private: No Submitted By: Luca Bigliardi (shammash) Assigned to: renzo davoli (rd235) Summary: slirp licensing issues Initial Comment: We've just been contacted via IRC by anubisg1 from openSUSE who raised some concerns about slirp licensing: 13:00 < anubisg1> hello people... 13:00 < anubisg1> at openSUSE we are considering add vde2 in our official supported repos with open source software only allowed... 13:00 < anubisg1> our legal team pointed that: http://pastebin.com/yNua9F4E 13:00 < anubisg1> could you please help? This is the content of the pastebin message he's pointing us at: slirp seems to be part of vde2. In the COPYING.slirpvde the license of slirp is stated. It is copyright Danny Gasparovski and the license includes the following clause: 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must display the following acknowledgment: This product includes software developed by Danny Gasparovski. In the subdirectory which contains the slirp there are many files which are licensed under the more permissive BSD 3 clause license (i.e. the one without the advertising clause) and under the MIT license (typically those files written by Fabrice Bellard). However, there are still numerous files there which contain this notice: /* * Copyright (c) 1995 Danny Gasparovski * * Please read the file COPYRIGHT for the * terms and conditions of the copyright. */ A reasonable interpretation of this notice, even in the absence of a COPYRIGHT file in the immediate directory is that the Danny Gasparovski license with the advertising clause is meant. This is not compatible with any version of the GPL. Thus, if slirp is linked with the rest of the files/components (some being GPL) an issue of GPL compatibility could arise. Could you therefore confirm first of all whether slirp is used at all. If it is used, we will need to check on whether upstream had permission to relicense files from Danny Gasparovski. If not, we will need to examine the nature of the interaction of the (c) Danny Gasparovski files with the rest of the package. We have to understand the implications and change our licensing/packaging accordingly. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=611248&aid=3304584&group_id=95403 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran developers boost performance applications - including clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ vde-users mailing list vde-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vde-users
