legal November 2013

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License of jnlp-servlet.jar - part of Oracle JDK
by Manuel Faux 13 Nov '13

13 Nov '13

I would need some advice concerning a license. Does a file which is licensed under the following conditions meet the requirements of Fedora, to be allowed to be packaged? /* * Copyright (c) 2006, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. * * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: * * -Redistribution of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this * list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * * -Redistribution in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, * this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation * and/or other materials provided with the distribution. * * Neither the name of Oracle or the names of contributors may * be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without * specific prior written permission. * * This software is provided "AS IS," without a warranty of any kind. ALL * EXPRESS OR IMPLIED CONDITIONS, REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES, INCLUDING * ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE * OR NON-INFRINGEMENT, ARE HEREBY EXCLUDED. SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. ("SUN") * AND ITS LICENSORS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES SUFFERED BY LICENSEE * AS A RESULT OF USING, MODIFYING OR DISTRIBUTING THIS SOFTWARE OR ITS * DERIVATIVES. IN NO EVENT WILL SUN OR ITS LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOST * REVENUE, PROFIT OR DATA, OR FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, * INCIDENTAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, HOWEVER CAUSED AND REGARDLESS OF THE THEORY * OF LIABILITY, ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THIS SOFTWARE, * EVEN IF SUN HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. * * You acknowledge that this software is not designed, licensed or intended * for use in the design, construction, operation or maintenance of any * nuclear facility. */ More concrete, this is the license from jnlp-servlet.jar, which is part of the Oracle JDK. Manuel

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Greetings from an articling student
by Adam Saunders 10 Nov '13

10 Nov '13

Hello Fedora Legal, I am a recent Canadian law school graduate. Unlike in the United States, I am required to apprentice for a lawyer for several months ("articling") before I can be admitted to practice. I've focused my studies on legal issues concerning information and communications technology, so I have a pretty good grounding in copyright, patent, trademark, Terms of Service, privacy, etc. laws. I'm also on the Fedora Design team and am learning Python, and I'm taking pull requests on my GitHub account (username: asaunders) for a public domain dedication project I'm working on in my spare time. I'm happy to try to answer any questions posters to this mailing list may have regarding Fedora-related legal issues, particularly (but not exclusively) regarding licensing issues. However: 1) I cannot provide legal advice, and 2) I cannot form a solicitor-client relationship with anyone on this mailing list. Glad to help in any way I can. Thanks, Adam Saunders

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Confirmation about the pptpd license tag
by Mathieu Bridon 08 Nov '13

08 Nov '13

Hi, I'm reviewing the pptpd package that Jaroslav submitted, and I have some doubts about the licensing. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632853#c35 It's very possible that I'm concerned over nothing here, but there's a bit of code from different places in this package, so I'd rather not make a mistake. :) Thanks, -- Mathieu

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Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Can we get an official fedora position on OpenH264?
by Bruno Wolff III 04 Nov '13

04 Nov '13

On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 17:19:53 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Opened: https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1192 Thank you.

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Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Can we get an official fedora position on OpenH264?
by Josh Boyer 04 Nov '13

04 Nov '13

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno(a)wolff.to> wrote: > If Fedora is not going to implement (or remove) the ability for Firefox > the ability to download the OpenH264 binary from Cisco, this might affect > the decision to have H.264 as a mandatory to implement codec for WebRTC. > It has been suggested that it might help Fedora to comment on the project's > position on the WebRTC's mailing list, particularly as it is looking more > likely for H.264 to be mandatory now that Cisco is going to provide a > binary implementation free of cost when downloaded directly from Cisco. > > Several people have stated that Fedora will not allow this, but it would > be nice to know the official situation and to comment on that to the > working group. > > The thread discussing this is: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-November/191153.html > > The vote on this is coming up this week, so we don't have much time to > comment. CC'ing Fedora legal. josh

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Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Packages have "proxy" word.
by مصعب الزعبي 02 Nov '13

02 Nov '13

First , I ask very important questions: Is Fedora a global community or not ?? Is Fedora working for Freedom or not ?? I need answers, truly. Fedora is a global community, not company, published under free license for fredom of computers. Fedora has many many mirrors around the world, nobody can ban it to reach anywhere. Also this law is under restudy, Due to War in Syria. Source forge and many websites that banned them-contents for Syrian IPs, now these contents are allowed and open for Syria, also Youtube before 3 years we need proxies to reach it, Now It's open. > Wasn't Syria actually READDED to the list of banned countries due to the > civil war? This US racial law only for old goverment , there are more than one goverment in Syria now. I can't show Fedora out of Freedom under any name, or any stuation. Regards -=-=-=-=-=- Mosaab Alzoubi Senior of Linux Arab Community http://linuxac.org Member of Ojuba Project http://ojuba.org Member of Arab Eyes project http://arabeyes.org Maintainer of Almasa project http://linux.softpedia.com/progMoreBy/Publisher-Almasa-47122.html Maintainer of Arabic Translations in : Wine - VLC - KDE - MATE .... etc Also member of Fedora Arabic translations team > To: devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > From: kevin.kofler(a)chello.at > Subject: RE: Packages have "proxy" word. > Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 16:54:27 +0100 > > مصعب الزعبي wrote: > > > Also this law is under restudy, Due to War in Syria. > > Wasn't Syria actually READDED to the list of banned countries due to the > civil war? > > Kevin Kofler > > -- > devel mailing list > devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

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Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Packages have "proxy" word.
by Stanislav Ochotnicky 01 Nov '13

01 Nov '13

Quoting Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (2013-11-01 13:52:31) > On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 12:09:03PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 02:07:22AM +0100, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 01:08:33AM +0200, مصعب الزعبي wrote: > > > > بسم الله الرّحمن الرّحيم > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > The result of updating Fedora by yum is fail !! > > > > > > > > When any package have "proxy" word marked to (install or update) , error message will appear with http 403 error forbidden. > > > > > > > > In my country Syria (maybe others) all URLs have "proxy" word are forbidden and couldn't open by default way. > > > > > > I think you'll have to use a... proxy to work around this problem. > > > Or maybe it'll be enough to use a https connection to the mirror. > > > > NB, US export restrictions that Fedora is subject to mean users > > from Syria should not be downloading Fedora at all[1], via a proxy > > or not. > Let's consider how likely this export restriction is to prevent a > member of the Syrian government or military from obtaining a copy of > Fedora? Not very likely. How likely this export restriction is to hurt > a random person, e.g. trying to install open source to avoid > restrictions imposed by their government? The first is a joke, the > second is high enough to keep this restriction in the same contempt > as the Syrian government's ban on "proxy". You are walking on thin ice and should stop immediately "You may not provide Fedora software or technical information to individuals or entities located in one of these countries or otherwise subject to these restrictions." CCing fedora-legal for good measure -- Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotnicky(a)redhat.com> Software Engineer - Developer Experience PGP: 7B087241 Red Hat Inc. http://cz.redhat.com

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