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
6 months, 3 weeks
Fedora Export Compliance/Customs Information
by Tom Callaway
Please note: We have updated our Export Compliance/Customs Information.
A copy of our updated statement can be found here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Export
If you have any questions about this statement, please send them to
legal(a)fedoraproject.org. However, please keep in mind that Fedora, as
part of Red Hat, is subject to the export and customs laws of the United
States. Emails discussing loopholes, wording changes, or complaining
about the inclusion or exclusion of specific countries or uses are
likely to be ignored.
Thanks,
Tom Callaway
Fedora Legal
6 years
Bison license exception
by Sandro Mani
Hi
While reviewing mingw-cfitsio, we encountered the situation of bison
parser sources [1][2] containing the following:
/* [... standard GPLv3+ header ...] */
/* As a special exception, you may create a larger work that contains
part or all of the Bison parser skeleton and distribute that work
under terms of your choice, so long as that work isn't itself a
parser generator using the skeleton or a modified version thereof
as a parser skeleton. Alternatively, if you modify or redistribute
the parser skeleton itself, you may (at your option) remove this
special exception, which will cause the skeleton and the resulting
Bison output files to be licensed under the GNU General Public
License without this special exception.
This special exception was added by the Free Software Foundation in
version 2.2 of Bison. */
cfitsio is licensed MIT. Is my understanding correct that this special
exception means that these files are also MIT licensed, being
distributed as part of cfitsio, and hence that the license field of the
package only needs to specify MIT?
Thanks
Sandro
[1] https://github.com/healpy/cfitsio/blob/master/eval_y.c
[2] https://github.com/healpy/cfitsio/blob/master/eval_tab.h
6 years
