legal December 2016

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Sleepycat license with SaaS restriction
by Florian Weimer 08 Jul '25

08 Jul '25

cryptlib is licensed under the Sleepycat license with a SaaS restriction: “Note that decoupling the software from the user, for example by running in a SaaS configuration, does not exempt you from these requirements.” (Full text attached.) This was not part of the original Sleepycat license, so a new license tag is required. Maybe this license is not even free; this additional clause seems to be a restriction on use. But perhaps it is not so different from the AGPL. Thanks, Florian

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Henry Spencer's license
by Petr Šabata 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

Dear legal, While checking the contents of our `perl' package, I noticed the following: (...) /* NOTE: this is derived from Henry Spencer's regexp code, and should not * confused with the original package (see point 3 below). Thanks, Henry! */ /* Additional note: this code is very heavily munged from Henry's version * in places. In some spots I've traded clarity for efficiency, so don't * blame Henry for some of the lack of readability. */ /* The names of the functions have been changed from regcomp and * regexec to pregcomp and pregexec in order to avoid conflicts * with the POSIX routines of the same names. */ (...) * pregcomp and pregexec -- regsub and regerror are not used in perl * * Copyright (c) 1986 by University of Toronto. * Written by Henry Spencer. Not derived from licensed software. * * Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any * purpose on any computer system, and to redistribute it freely, * subject to the following restrictions: * * 1. The author is not responsible for the consequences of use of * this software, no matter how awful, even if they arise * from defects in it. * * 2. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented, either * by explicit claim or by omission. * * 3. Altered versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not * be misrepresented as being the original software. * **** Alterations to Henry's code are... **** **** Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, **** 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 **** by Larry Wall and others **** **** You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public **** License or the Artistic License, as specified in the README file. (...) You can see the whole file here: https://metacpan.org/source/SHAY/perl-5.20.1/regexec.c I looked but couldn't find any common name for this license of Henry's. Is it on our list? Is it free? What name should I use in the License tag? Thank you, Petr

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License compatibility : MPLv2.0 and GPLv3+
by Remi Collet 01 Jan '17

01 Jan '17

Hi, From compatibility list [1], state is "Sometimes" I'm working on packaging Grammmalecte [2] and like to know is this is really compatible in this case (and thus, acceptable for Fedora repo) - MPL code (seems to) come from lightprof which have been used / adapted for French (extension and builder) - GPL code is the French engine Remi. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing#SoftwareLicenses [2] http://www.dicollecte.org/grammalecte/

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Missing license header for ASL 2.0 project
by Jonny Heggheim 30 Dec '16

30 Dec '16

Hi, license headers for python-libnacl[1] was missing, so I asked upstream if they could confirm that all files were under ASL[2]. Upstream reply was: > Yes, as stated in clause 5 of the Apache license all files contributed to this project inherit the Apache Licence unless explicitly stated otherwise. Do we need to get confirmation from upstream when license is ASL 2.0? Sincerely Jonny Heggheim [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1399833#c3 [2] https://github.com/saltstack/libnacl/issues/86

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License of a file in espeak-ng
by Ondřej Lysoněk 21 Dec '16

21 Dec '16

Hi, I'm packaging espeak-ng [1] and it includes a file which has a somewhat problematic license [2]. The license header in the file itself doesn't explicitly permit modification, however the file is reachable from a page saying that all the code listed there can be modified, if you send the improvements back to the author [3]. Can we use code like this in Fedora? Thanks. [1] https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/ [2] https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/blob/master/src/libespeak-ng/ieee80.c taken from http://www.realitypixels.com/turk/opensource/ToFromIEEE.c.txt [3] http://www.realitypixels.com/turk/opensource/ Ondřej Lysoněk

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Un-retiring QCad
by Antonio Trande 06 Dec '16

06 Dec '16

Hi all. This is an un-retiring request for QCad on Fedora (https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/rpms/qcad/) Now upstream provides an open-source community edition version of QCad including files with following licenses: ## Main license: GPLv3 ## ## 3rd parties licenses: ## dxflib: GPLv2+. # See src/3rdparty/dxflib/gpl-2.0greater.txt ## opennurbs: Public domain (neither copyright nor copyleft apply). # See src/3rdparty/opennurbs/readme.txt ## quazip: LPGLv2+. # See src/3rdparty/quazip/lgpl-2.1.txt ## spatialindexnavel: MIT # See src/3rdparty/spatialindexnavel/COPYING ## stemmer: BSD 2-Clause License # See src/3rdparty/stemmer/bsd-2.txt ## Hershey fonts are released under the terms described in fonts/hershey.readme. ## Other fonts in directory 'fonts' are released as public domain (all copyright ## is waived). I don't know if Hershey license can be accepted on Fedora. Review: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1401967 -- --- Antonio Trande mailto: sagitter 'at' fedoraproject 'dot' org https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Sagitter GPG Key: 0x6CE6D08A Check on https://keys.fedoraproject.org/

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