objenesis - files with unclear licensing
by Michal Srb
Hi folks,
Package "objenesis" in Fedora contains two files with following license
header:
/**
* COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
*
* This code is Copyright (c) 2006 BEA Systems, inc. It is provided
free, as-is and without any warranties for the purpose of
* inclusion in Objenesis or any other open source project with a FSF
approved license, as long as this notice is not
* removed. There are no limitations on modifying or repackaging the
code apart from this.
*
* BEA does not guarantee that the code works, and provides no support
for it. Use at your own risk.
*
* Originally developed by Leonardo Mesquita. Copyright notice added by
Henrik St\u00E0hl, BEA JRockit Product Manager.
*
*/
Does this mean that these files are licensed under ASL 2.0 as the rest
of the objenesis project? [1]
Thanks,
Michal
[1]: http://objenesis.org/license.html
9 years, 2 months
Re: [Fedora-legal-list] [Fedora-packaging] questions about license file migration
by Björn Persson
Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 04:38:16PM +0100, Björn Persson wrote:
> > 2: When a package has a list of authors separate from the license file,
> > should that list also be tagged as a license file, or is it considered
> > regular documentation? It seems to me that *who* gives out a license is
> > important information that belongs together with the license.
>
> With a big "I'm not Fedora Legal" disclaimer, I think the answer here
> is really... it depends.
>
> The intent here is primarily to make it possible to exclude bulky
> documentation for containers and other space-constrained installations
> while keeping legally-required license statements in place. Authorship
> files may or may not be part of that.
Then I suppose I should ask Fedora Legal, so I'm CCing the legal list.
If it were a legal requirement, then I suppose it would also apply when
the author's name is written in a README file together with a lot of
other information.
I don't remember seeing any explicit requirement to include a separate
file with a list of authors. It just feels weird to have a license
without a licensor. There are some licenses that contain phrases like
"the above copyright notice", but in those cases it's in the same file.
Björn Persson
9 years, 2 months
