legal May 2013

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GPLv2 with exception linked with GPLv3+
by Laurent Rineau 06 May '13

06 May '13

The openscad package from Fedora has the following COPYING file: ========================quote============================== ============== ********************************************************************* As a special exception, you have permission to link this program with the CGAL library and distribute executables, as long as you follow the requirements of the GNU GPL in regard to all of the software in the executable aside from CGAL. ********************************************************************* GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991 ========================end quote========================================= [and then there the text of GPLv2]. (from /usr/share/doc/openscad-2013.01.17/COPYING on Fedora 17). The license of CGAL libraries is LGPLv3+ for some parts, and GPLv3+ for other parts. OpenSCAD does use the parts that are under GPLv3+. Is the exception to GPLv2+, in the license of OpenSCAD, sufficient to make it compatible with the terms of the license GPLv3+? I am unsure of that. -- Laurent Rineau http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LaurentRineau

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This code may be freely used and modified for any purpose
by Miro Hrončok 06 May '13

06 May '13

HI, how can I use this in a package? Copyright 2001, softSurfer (www.softsurfer.com) This code may be freely used and modified for any purpose providing that this copyright notice is included with it. SoftSurfer makes no warranty for this code, and cannot be held liable for any real or imagined damage resulting from its use. Users of this code must verify correctness for their application. Thanks a lot. -- Miro Hrončok -- Phone: +420777974800 Jabber: miro(a)hroncok.cz

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License clarification for xvt
by Mamoru TASAKA 06 May '13

06 May '13

Hello: On the review request for xfe: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=958150 a question was raised on the license of xvt/xvt.c in xfe-1.34.tar.gz, which says: /* Copyright 1992, 1994 John Bovey, University of Kent at Canterbury. * * Redistribution and use in source code and/or executable forms, with * or without modification, are permitted provided that the following * condition is met: * * Any redistribution must retain the above copyright notice, this * condition and the following disclaimer, either as part of the * program source code included in the redistribution or in human- * readable materials provided with the redistribution. * * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS". Any express or implied * warranties concerning this software are disclaimed by the copyright * holder to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. In no * event shall the copyright-holder be liable for any damages of any * kind, however caused and on any theory of liability, arising in any * way out of the use of, or inability to use, this software. * * ------------------------------------------------------------------- * * In other words, do not misrepresent my work as your own work, and * do not sue me if it causes problems. Feel free to do anything else * you wish with it. */ I think this can be MIT, however I would appreciate if someone would check the license above. Regards, Mamoru

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nodejs-ansi usage of yoshi png file
by Stanislav Ochotnicky 03 May '13

03 May '13

nodejs-ansi upstream tarball contains yoshi.png which is a character from Nintendo games. It's used in one of examples to display it on a console. It's not *really* needed and could be replaced with completely different image if needed. Question is: do we have to do something about it or not? If it makes any difference the image is *really* low quality (64x21 pixels). -- Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotnicky(a)redhat.com> Software Engineer - Developer Experience PGP: 7B087241 Red Hat Inc. http://cz.redhat.com

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