legal April 2013

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Perl packages and App::FatPacker output
by Florian Weimer 15 Apr '13

15 Apr '13

Hi, is it conforming to Fedora licensing practices to bundle App::FatPacker output in Perl SRPMs, without rebuilding it from the original sources? Obviously, this is maintenance hazard, but if it is not acceptable licensing-wise as well, this might help to cut the discussion short. 8-) Thanks, Florian -- Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team

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[WTF] openerp: what's this license (#1)?
by Alec Leamas 10 Apr '13

10 Apr '13

openerp 7.0 have some files with license below. Is it possible to conclude an effective license for this? (AGPL 3.0+ and LGPL 2.1+)? Or is it just an invalid? attempt to relicense? --alec leamas ############################################################################## # # OpenERP, Open Source Management Solution # Copyright (C) 2004-2009 Tiny SPRL (<http://tiny.be>). # # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as # published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the # License, or (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU Affero General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License # along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. # ############################################################################## # Copyright (C) 2005, Fabien Pinckaers, UCL, FSA # # This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public # License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either # version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. # # This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU # Lesser General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public # License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

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[WTF] openerp: can a license look like this (#2)?
by Alec Leamas 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

Hi all! Need som help with openerp 7.0: Here are (in my eyes) strange licenses. First one below. What's the effective license here? (LGPL 2.1+ and AGPL 3.0+)? Is this kind of relicensing OK? ########################################################################## # # Portions of this file are under the following copyright and license: # # # Copyright (c) 2003-2004 Danny Brewer # d29583(a)groovegarden.com # # This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public # License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either # version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. # # This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU # Lesser General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public # License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA # # See: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html # # # and other portions are under the following copyright and license: # # # OpenERP, Open Source Management Solution>.. # Copyright (C) 2004-2010 OpenERP SA (<http://openerp.com>). # # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU Affero General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License # along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. # # ##############################################################################

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Question -> Ubuntu Font License
by Ralph Bean 03 Apr '13

03 Apr '13

A package up for review[1] contains some static resources that are under the Ubuntu Font License[2]. According to a Fedora page[3], that license is a derivative of the Open Font License which appears ok on the list of acceptable Fedora licenses[4]. Is the Ubuntu Font License ok to use for Fedora packages? If not, the so licensed resources can be patched out. -Ralph [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=948014 [2] http://font.ubuntu.com/licence/ [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ubuntu_fonts [4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing#Software_License…

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Usage discrimination in Akismet (WordPress Plugin)
by Jochen Schmitt 31 Mar '13

31 Mar '13

Hello, I'm currently working with a own WordPress blog and have to find out, that the WordPress plugin is only free for personal use. In the readme.txt file you find the folllowing inforatioons: License: GPLv2 or later PS: You'll need an [Akismet.com API key](http://akismet.com/get/) to use it. Keys are free for personal blogs, with paid subscriptions available for businesses and commercial sites. The above cited sentence told be, that commercial sites have to pay a fee, if they wnat to use that plugin. Becuase this violate the Fedora policy, I would like your mind about this situation. Best Regards: Jochen Schmitt

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