Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2015-06-18 09:05, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
>>
>> Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> On 2015-06-17 23:35, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote:
>>>> El Dimecres, 17 de juny de 2015, a les 19:25:56, Gilles Chanteperdrix
>>>> va
>>>> escriure:
>>>>> Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> using a debian tool to check the license of the package I have found
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> his
>>>>>
>>>>>> files:
>>>>> This mail looks very different from the one you sent me privately and
>>>>> I
>>>>> told you to post on the list. It does not even concern the same
>>>>> version
>>>>> of
>>>>> Xenomai.
>>>>
>>>> yes,
>>>>
>>>> it's true. But what I understood from you was that it was better that
>>>> I
>>>> sent
>>>> to the list. That file comes from xenomai-2.6.4. Any problem then?
>>>>
>>>> I just need to clarify this kind of things because ftp-masters are
>>>> every
>>>> day
>>>> more strict (what I think it's better), especially with licenses.
>>>> Never
>>>> happens nothing till the day that something happen.
>>>
>>> Out of curiosity: How do these license check work right now? What's the
>>> tool used and how are the outputs processed (manual or automatic
>>> decisions etc.)?
>>>
>>>>
>>>> If can check this kind of stuff it would be better, that's all. For
>>>> instance, I
>>>> was a bit surprised about the autotools generated files, because I
>>>> thought they
>>>> would never had license.
>>>
>>> If something has no license, it cannot be used.
>>
>> That is an over-simplification. Or maybe a policy of the company you
>> work
>> at. But that is not a general truth that applies to everyone.
>
> Of course, it's a simplification (you may still use it secretly under
> your blanket), but your lawyer will tell you something like this if you
> ask. At least when referring to common copyright laws on this planet. So
> this is not a company policy thing but a jurisdiction issue.
What I mean is that there are other cases, such as:
- code in the public domain
- reuse of portions of the code that fall under "fair use" or "right to
quote", that could easily apply to things like the 5 lines x86 arith.h or
the examples. And I would think that of the Makefiles too.
--
Gilles.
https://click-hack.org
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