Henry Spencer's license
by Petr Šabata
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
9 months
Un-retiring QCad
by Antonio Trande
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
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